In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O'Connor McNees

Kelly O’Connor McNees’s award-winning novels transport readers to pivotal moments in history as seen through the eyes of the resilient, fascinating women who lived through them. What happens next, as their babies are born and they leave Holy Family behind, will force each woman to confront the depths and limits of motherhood and friendship, and fight to reclaim control over their own lives. In its zeal to make the babies legitimate in closed adoptions, Holy Family manipulates and bullies birth mothers, often coercing them to sign away their parental rights while still under the effects of anesthesia.

Holy Family, like many of the maternity homes where 1.5 million women relinquished their babies in what is now known as the Baby Scoop Era, is not interested in what the birth mothers want. Except, they soon realize, the decision has already been made for them.

Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family's culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the weight of their coming decision-to keep or surrender their babies-becomes clear. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the Wayward in rural Illinois. Urn:lcp:inneedofgoodwife0000mcne:epub:b8cdc74c-b421-4a21-90e7-f3f06bb8e0cb Foldoutcount 0 Identifier inneedofgoodwife0000mcne Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8hf7d26j Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780425257920ġ620905086 Lccn 2012004002 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.3 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19594 Page_number_confidence 94.12 Pages 410 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201027142815 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 326 Scandate 20201024101929 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781620905081 Tts_version 4.In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:02:53 Boxid IA1984723 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O'Connor McNees