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The lies they told / Ellen Marie Wiseman.

Wiseman, Ellen Marie, (author.).

Summary:

In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement -- when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781496758064 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Kensington hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2025]

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General Note:
Includes discussion questions.

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Subject: Eugenics > United States > History > Fiction.
Immigrants > United States > Fiction.
Mothers > Fiction.
Virginia > History > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch. (Show)

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