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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 Samanthaβs mother has been dead almost a year when the box arrives on her doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards, keepsakes, lettersβrelics of her mother Irisβs 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 Americaβs 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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