Rebecca Lowman
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl"--
1917. Beatrice Haven-- Jewish, unwed-- sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. Ten years later Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea's hopes for her...