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247 pp.
| Minnesota |
September, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8166-8056-6$16.95
(4)
YA
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose, sheltered within the home of the prominent Worthingtons, is determined to uncover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death. Vivid descriptions of a rural Prohibition-era Minnesota town round out a suspenseful page-turner containing flashbacks of an early childhood spent in a brothel under the care of a mother forced into prostitution. Realistic portrayals are wrapped up in a conveniently contrived conclusion.