04903cam a2200745 4500 599812723 TxAuBib 20220604120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780758278463 0758278462 B00DV1IUNE Amazon db56ae21-4369-4c16-ba2a-b6045d805fd8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1473947 OverDrive (Product ID) 470103 470103 470103 TxAuBib Wiseman, Ellen Marie. What She Left Behind [Sunflower eLibrary eBook] : A Haunting and Heartbreaking Story of 1920s Historical Fiction. Kensington Books, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3288kB. historical fiction best sellers all time. women authors best sellers fiction. best sellers list new york times. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. mystery novels best sellers. book club recommendations. new york times bestseller. realistic fiction books. fiction psychological. best book club books. fiction best sellers. contemporary fiction. top book club books. literary fiction. fiction books. Coming of age. books fiction. Kate Morton. Friendship. suspense. England. sisters. Fiction. mystery. murder . family. novels. Death. grief. twins. Drama. WWII. love. art. HTML:<b>Half a million copies sold!</b><br /> <br /> <b><i>The breakout novel from the</i></b> <b>New York Times <i>bestselling author of</i> The Orphan Collector<i>,</i> What She Left Behind <i>weaves together riveting stories of past and present, exploring the strength of women in two different times as they face adversity in two very different ways. Go inside the horrifying walls of a 1920s New York asylum as a wrongly imprisoned woman fights for what is most important to her—and meet the young woman confronting the pain and mystery of her own family's mental illness two generations later.</i></b><br /> <br /> Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.<br /> <br /> Young flapper and suffragette Clara Cartwright is caught between her overbearing parents and her desire to be a modern woman. Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, instead finding love with an Italian Immigrant, Clara's father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids. But when his fortune is lost in the stock market crash of 1929, he can no longer afford her care—and Clara is committed to the public asylum.<br /> <br /> Even as Izzy deals with the challenges of yet another new beginning, Clara's story keeps drawing her into the past. If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother's violent act? Piecing together Clara's fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices—with shocking and unexpected results.<br /> <br /> "Screams with authenticity, depth, and understanding."<br /> —<i><b>The New York Journal of Books</b></i><br /> <br /> "A real page turner...will appeal to all readers of fiction."<br /> —<b><i>The Historical Novels Review</i></b><br /> <br /> "Amazing...A great read!"<br /> —<i><b>The San Francisco Book Review</b></i><br /> <br /> "Will both haunt and inspire you... a moving, and at times chilling story that totally endears you to her characters."<br /> —<b>SpaWeek</b><br /> <br /> "A great coming-of-age story."<br /> —<b><i>School Library Journal</i></b><br />. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-08-03 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/what-she-left-db56ae?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/what-she-left-db56ae?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/what-she-left-db56ae?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)