Book
What she left behind / Ellen Marie Wiseman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780758278456
- ISBN: 0758278454
- ISBN: 9781496730039
- ISBN: 1496730038
- Physical Description: viii, 328 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Kensington Books, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes a Q & A with the author. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Paperback -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 cataloguing 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. Clara Cartwright, eighteen years old in 1929, is caught between her overbearing parents and her love for an Italian immigrant. Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, Clara's father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids. But when his fortune is lost in the stock market crash, he can no longer afford her care -- and Clara is committed to the public asylum. 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. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Family secrets > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Mentally ill > Fiction. Secrets > Fiction. Mental illness > Fiction. Diaries > Fiction. Depressions > 1929 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
Available copies
- 30 of 33 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 33 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ansonia Public Library | FIC WISEMAN, ELLEN MARIE PBK (Text) | 34045129652181 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC Wis (Text) | 33120000393337 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC WISEMAN (Text) | 33750000062975 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | PBK FIC Wis (Text) | 33160140216980 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | F WISEMAN (Text) | 34030130252999 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF WIS (Text) | 33260000189937 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/WISEMAN (Text) | 34029134269736 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC WISEMAN (Text) | 34014140316036 | Adult Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Deep River Public Library | F Wise (Text) | 36039001152236 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC WIS (Text) | 33400143220880 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
