All waiting is long / by Barbara J. Taylor.

[New York, N.Y.] : Kaylie Jones Books : Akashic Books, [2016]

©2016

316 pages ; 22 cm

BEIN Zac T2125 AL517 2016: "First printing" -- verso of title page.

Violet helps her sixteen-year-old sister, Lily, travel to an infant asylum in Philadelphia so Lily can have her child in secret. They do not know the asylum's physician is experimenting on the girls with eugenics. After five years, both women are back in Scranton finding their way in marriage and engagement and grapple with their worth and virtue.

English

February 02, 2017