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092    |fF|aGOODMAN 
100 1  Goodman, Joanna,|d1969-|eauthor. 
245 14 The home for unwanted girls:|ba novel /|cJoanna Goodman. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bHarper, an imprint of 
       HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2018] 
300    364 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other 
       with precarious civilitymuch like Maggie Hughes' parents. 
       Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his 
       daughter that dont include marriage to the poor French boy
       on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by 
       Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her 
       parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and 
       get her life 'back on track'.  Elodie is raised in 
       Quebec's impoverished orphanage system. It's a precarious 
       enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, 
       along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is 
       declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that 
       provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to 
       orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands 
       abysmal treatment at the nuns' hands, finally earning her 
       freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, 
       often unnerving world.  Maggie, married to a businessman 
       eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she 
       was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with 
       Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the 
       stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, 
       until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from 
       life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally 
       reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both. --
       |cAmazon description. 
650  0 Teenage mothers|vFiction. 
650  0 Orphans|vFiction. 
651  0 Québec (Province)|xHistory|y20th century|vFiction. 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd