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In 1937 Ireland, Mary Margaret Joyce, nicknamed Peg, is born to an unwed mother living in a penal home. When her mother is discharged, she's forced to leave Peg behind. Peg spends time with an uncaring foster family and then is sent to an industrial school where she learns silence, prayers, and hard work from the nuns there. Then at age thirteen Peg tracks down her birth mother and the tension between them mounts as Peg considers leaving for America....
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"Set in the real-life women-run charitable institution in Louisville, Kentucky, which took in pregnant, unmarried women from 1876 to 1919, A HOME FOR FRIENDLESS WOMEN is an evocative and nuanced blend of archival research and fiction that delves into the darker truths of nineteenth century American white feminism through three women's stories"--
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Teenager Zé becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father's Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutally throws her out of her home. Led by her mother, she leaves the city for refuge in Matanzas, a university town rich in Afro-Cuban culture,...