Where the Girls Were

Where the Girls WereThey were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story. In this electrifying historical novel about coming of age in tumultuous 1960s San Francisco, a pregnant teenager reckons with womanhood and agency after being sent to a home for unwed mothers. "Thrilling, propulsive, breathless, and brimming with a deep understanding of longing and frailty . . . of humanness.Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck Its 1968, and

her once-ragtag band of newbloods and Reds continue organizing

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When Henry sees an ad for a Christmas movie marathon—once an annual tradition for him and his wife—Grace offers to watch some films with him

as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate

Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death

Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction--but assassins are getting closer to her door

and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made―a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth

Nico’s little sister

burned the T-shirt

How could a parent do this to a child

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