Leaving Lucy Pear
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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 future remain unfulfilled. Returning to her uncles house she meets Emma Murphy, the headstrong Irish Catholic woman who has been raising Bea's abandoned child-- now a bright, bold, cross-dressing girl named Lucy Pear.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: 319 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594632655
SUBJECTS
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Abandoned children -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.