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The lies they told

"In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement--when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin-...

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Main Author: Wiseman, Ellen Marie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2025.
Edition:First Kensington Trade edition.
Subjects:
Single mothers > Fiction.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
Small cities > Virginia > Fiction.
Eugenics > United States > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Nineteen thirties > Fiction.
Blue Ridge Mountains > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:"In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement--when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin--in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope ... "--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:Includes author's note and discussion questions.
Physical Description:x, 406 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 399).
ISBN:9781496741509
1496741501
Author Notes:Ellen Marie Wiseman is a bestselling author whose novels have been translated into seventeen languages. Her debut novel, The Plum Tree, was named by Bookbub as One of Thirteen Books to read and What she left behind, was on Huffington Post's Best Books of Summer 2015.

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