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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Smith, April, 1949-     Subjects     Mothers and sons -- Fiction.     Parental grief -- Fiction.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.     Cemeteries -- France -- Verdun -- Fiction.     United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, April, 1949-       by title:      A star for Mrs. Blak...         MARC Display

A star for Mrs. Blake [electronic resource] / by April Smith. by Smith, April, 1949- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Subjects Mothers and sons -- Fiction.   Parental grief -- Fiction.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.   Cemeteries -- France -- Verdun -- Fiction.   United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9ED8808D-F176-45D1-A92D-ACBBDA6F6D92 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{9ED8808D-F176-45D1-A92D-ACBBDA6F6D92}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780307958853 (electronic bk.) 030795885X (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie, a wealthy Boston socialite ; Wilhelmina, a former tennis star in precarious mental health; and Cora Blake, a single mother and librarian from coastal Maine. In Paris, Cora meets a journalist whose drug habit helps him hide from his own war-time fate--facial wounds so grievous he's forced to wear a metal mask. This man will change Cora's life in wholly unexpected ways. And when the women finally travel to Verdun to visit the battlegrounds where their sons fought as well as the cemeteries where they are buried, shocking events -a death, a scandal, a secret revealed--will guarantee that Cora's life and those of her traveling companions will become inextricably intertwined, and only now will they be able to emerge from their grief and return home to their loved ones. This is a timeless story set against a footnote of history: little known but unforgettable.."--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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