The Foundling A Novel

Ann Leary

eBook - 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the "harrowing, gripping, and beautiful" (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at an institution—based on a shocking and little-known piece of American history.It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer—brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young ps...ychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women's suffrage. Now, at age forty, Dr. Vogel runs one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country. Mary deeply admires how...

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Published
S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Language
English
Main Author
Ann Leary
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size5 GB
ISBN9781982120405
Release Date5/31/2022
Kindle Book
ASINB09JPH4D9K
Release Date5/31/2022
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781982120405
Release Date5/31/2022