The Whitsun Daughters Hardcover by Carrie Mesrobian

Product Details

• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers (2020-08-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780735231955
• Item Weight: 333.11 grams
• Dimensions: 8.56 x 5.88 x 0.75 cm

"How quickly everything in the world disintegrates. Everything but the loneliness of young women."

So begins The Whitsun Daughters, a story of three girls in a small Midwestern town, narrated by the ghost of a young Irish immigrant who, over a century earlier, lived and loved on the same small patch of farmland the girls and their mothers now call home.
 
Award-winning author Carrie Mesrobian weaves the story of the girls’ day-to-day struggles with the fractured and harrowing memories of their unseen observer. The threads of the tales are familiar: An arranged marriage. An impulsive proposal bitterly refused. Secret affairs. And pregnancies, both welcome and not. Each young woman fights her own lonely battle in the generations-long war of those who would no longer settle for haunting the margins of a world that wants to ignore them.

About the Author

Carrie Mesrobian teaches writing to teens in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her debut novel, Sex & Violence, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award and was a PW Flying Start. She is also the author of Just a Girl, Perfectly Good White Boy, and Cut Both Ways.