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The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick is a heartbreaking historical novel told by three female characters: 12-year-old Effie, her mother Jeanne, and Effie's frenemy Mable.
Inspired by history, the story is set in 1910-1913 Manhattan/New York at the House of Mercy, an âasylum for abandoned and troubled women.â This church-connected institution, and many like it, offered deplorable living conditions while generating profits by forcing its residents to provide laundry services, often resulting in injuries from accidents.
This novel is a powerful reminder that there's usually a chain of events behind someone's bad actions; things are seldom what they seem on the surface. TW: miscarriages, infant death.
Inspired by history, the story is set in 1910-1913 Manhattan/New York at the House of Mercy, an âasylum for abandoned and troubled women.â This church-connected institution, and many like it, offered deplorable living conditions while generating profits by forcing its residents to provide laundry services, often resulting in injuries from accidents.
This novel is a powerful reminder that there's usually a chain of events behind someone's bad actions; things are seldom what they seem on the surface. TW: miscarriages, infant death.
