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St. Martin's Griffin
May 2012
On Sale: May 8, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 1250009189
EAN: 9781250009180
Kindle: B007KJH0NO
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Women's Fiction
A rich, luminous novel of three remarkable women connected
across a century by a family secret and by the fierce
brilliance of their love Samantha’s mother has been dead almost a year when the box
arrives on her doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards,
keepsakes, letters—relics of her mother Iris’s past. But as
Sam sifts through these family treasures, she uncovers
evidence that her grandmother, Violet, had a much more
difficult childhood then she could have ever imagined. And
Sam, a struggling new mother herself, begins to see her own
burdens in a completely different light. Moving from the
tempered calm of contemporary Madison, Wisconsin to the
seedy underbelly of early twentieth century New York, we
come face to face with a haunting piece of America’s past:
From 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York transported
150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children
across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwest.
Rae Meadows takes us on our own journey of discovery in
Mercy Train (originally published as Mothers & Daughters),
an affecting and wonderfully woven novel about three
generations of motherhood, family, and the surprising
sacrifices we make for the people we love.
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