The Whitsun Daughters

By Carrie Mesrobian

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735231958
• ISBN13: 9780735231955
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher