The Daughter's Walk

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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Based closely on real people and real events.
Includes readers guide.
Nineteen-year-old Clara Estby is hauled by her mother, Helga, on a 7,000-mile walk from Spokane, Wash., to New York in 1896. The fashion industry is looking for promotion of the new, shorter dress for women; Helga is looking for a cash prize to save the family farm from foreclosure ... and Clara dreams of becoming a businesswoman.

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Fascinating account of historical journey submitted by willow on June 24, 2015, 10:55pm This book is about an almost unbelievable cross-country walk by a mother-daughter team. It is quite compelling and fascinating for its basic storyline as well as the descriptions of life in small towns and big cities that the women encounter as they walk along. Kirkpatrick provided a detailed depiction of women's daily lives and the dangers they faced in some situations.

I also read "The Year We Were Famous" by Carole Estby Dagg (also owned by AADL), about the same events; it was formatted like a diary.It interpreted the story differently. Kirkpatrick's book was more centered around the women's (particularly the daughter's) inner thoughts and psychological motivations at least as much as the action of the journey.