{"product_id":"9781728257181","title":"The Girls We Sent Away : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An important and vital story.\" — Donna Everhart, USA Today bestselling author of The Saints of Swallow Hill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Engaging, shocking, heart-wrenching.\" — Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA \"compassionate novel about loss and broken dreams.\" — Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set in the Baby Scoop Era of the 1960s about the women of a certain condition swept up in a dark history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope, she dreams of the stars. It's ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo hide their daughter's secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls. But this is no safe haven - it's a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules. And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for her life, she must decide if she can fight against the powers that aim to take her child or submit to the rules of a society she once admired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePowerful and affecting, The Girls We Sent Away is a timely novel that explores autonomy, belonging, and a quest for agency when the illusions of life-as-you-know-it fall away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sourcebooks Landmark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49058882617571,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781728257181-1.jpg?v=1788406273","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781728257181","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}