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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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Gardenias
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Binding: Paperback


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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