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The Whitsun Daughters

By Carrie Mesrobian

By Carrie Mesrobian

By Carrie Mesrobian

By Carrie Mesrobian

By Carrie Mesrobian
Read by Kristen Sieh and Alana Kerr Collins

By Carrie Mesrobian
Read by Kristen Sieh and Alana Kerr Collins

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Aug 25, 2020 | ISBN 9780735231955 | Young Adult

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Aug 25, 2020 | ISBN 9780735231962 | Young Adult

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Aug 25, 2020 | 356 Minutes | Young Adult

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    About The Whitsun Daughters

    “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 Whitsun Daughters

    “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 Whitsun Daughters

    “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.

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    About Carrie Mesrobian

    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… More about Carrie Mesrobian

    About Carrie Mesrobian

    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… More about Carrie Mesrobian

    About Carrie Mesrobian

    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… More about Carrie Mesrobian

    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $17.99
    Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers
    Aug 25, 2020 | 224 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780735231955

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers
    Aug 25, 2020 | 224 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780735231962

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $18.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Aug 25, 2020 | 356 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780593209080

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    Praise

    “Carrie Mesrobian explores female sexuality honestly and emotionally, not only from multiple characters’ vantage points, but from different periods in history. A brave, beautiful book.”—Stephanie Hemphill, Printz Honor author of Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

    “Lyrically written…. Reminds us that women’s lives are not so different from one century to the next.”—St. Paul Pioneer Press

    “A gorgeously layered look at love, loss, and the complex lives of girls. Not to be missed.”—Teen Librarian Toolbox
     
    “Mesrobian writes with a sense of comfort and immediacy, drawing the reader into the girls’ stories…. Recommended for fans of Nova Ren Suma.”—Booklist 

    “A lush and beautifully written treat for readers of historical and contemporary fiction alike.”—Kirkus

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