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Item Information   Holdings     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 [large type] / April Smith. by Smith, April, 1949- Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2014. Subjects Mothers and sons -- Fiction.   Parental grief -- Fiction.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.   Cemeteries -- France -- Verdun -- Fiction.   United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781628990362 (large print) 1628990368 (large print) Description:  511 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  Center Point Large Print edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the 1930s 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."--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT SMITH Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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