Gardenias
by Faith Sullivan
In Gardenias, Faith Sullivan returns to Lark and her mother, Arlene, the beloved characters of her best-selling novel, The Cape Ann.
It is 1942, only a month after the United States has joined World War
II, and everything is in upheaval—including their family. Arlene has
left her husband—who gambled away the money she had saved to build the
house of her dreams—to pursue a new life in California, taking her
sister, Betty, and nine-year-old Lark with her. A remarkable story of
the courage of women, and life on the homefront.
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Faith Sullivan
Author's Bio:Faith Sullivan is the author of three novels set in the fictional town of Harvester, Minnesota—The Cape Ann (Penguin), The Empress of One, and What a Woman Must Do,
the latter two published by Milkweed. A frequent speaker to book
groups, Sullivan has lived in Los Angeles and New York, and currently
lives with her husband in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Quotes:"Sullivan’s most enduring talent is for weaving the mythology of unfulfilled dreams into fiction.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“When you meet Lark, scorned when she and her Rosie-the-Riveter
inspired mom and aunt arrive in California from Minnesota, all previous
World War II fictional characters will move aside. Faith Sullivan’s
novel is a moving, multilayered coming-of-age story.”—Book Sense, Cheryl McKeon, Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, Wahsington
“Lark Erhardt is a wonderful narrator—smart, funny, vulnerable, and real. . . . I loved Gardenias with all my heart.” —Judith Guest
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Gardenias
In Gardenias, renowned author Faith Sullivan returns to the beloved characters of her best-selling novel, The Cape Ann.
Through Lark’s observant, sometimes petulant, increasingly
compassionate eyes, Sullivan introduces an era when America’s new
prominence in the world rippled through the lives of individuals,
shearing them from their pasts and opening up an unknown, sometimes
frightful, future. more...
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Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 100
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2006
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9781571310521
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