num_pages: 360
description: A Winter 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection.American Library Association's 2020 Rise Project for Best Feminist Books in Children's Literature. Gold Medal Winner for Historical Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.2020 Gold Medal for YA Historical Fiction - Moonbeam Children's Awards The last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina Willa MacCarthy wants is to be a nun. Its 1936 and as the only daughter amongst four sons her IrishCatholic family is counting on her to take her vowsbut Willas found another calling. Each day she sneaks away to help Doctor Katherine Winston in her medical clinic in San Franciscos Richmond District.Keeping secrets from her family only becomes more complicated when Willa agrees to help the doctor at a field hospital near the new bridge being built over the Golden Gate. Willa thinks she can handle her new chaotic life but as she draws closer to a dashing young ironworker and risks grow at the bridge she discovers that hiding from what she truly wants may be her biggest lie of all.
language: English
title: Across a Broken Shore
publisher: Flux