Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed
Author: first_name: Edna
last_name: Ferber
Language: English
Year: 1911

<i>Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed</i> was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant but mentally ill husband, Peter Orme, have taken their toll. At twenty-eight, Dawn feels like an old woman with no future. But, the loving care of her sister Norah and her family along with the attentions of the handsome German doctor, Ernst Vo