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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 2017
On Sale: April 4, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 0547491166
EAN: 9780547491165
Kindle: B01I4FPOA8
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Historical | Women's Fiction Historical
Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have
built their lives around the same man find themselves moving
toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret
keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn,
tragically lost their young son, Jack, many years ago. But
he now has another child—a daughter, eight-year-old
Blue—with Lucy, the woman he fell in love with after his
marriage collapsed. The Half Wives follows these interconnected
characters on May 22, 1897, the anniversary of Jack’s birth.
Marilyn distracts herself with charity work at an orphanage.
Henry needs to wrangle his way out of the police station,
where he has spent the night for disorderly conduct. Lucy
must rescue and rein in the intrepid Blue, who has fallen in
a saltwater well. But before long, these four will all be
drawn on this day to the same destination: to the city
cemetery on the outskirts of San Francisco, to the grave
that means so much to all of them. The collision of lives
and secrets that follows will leave no one unaltered.
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