num_pages: 608
description: Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills is devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted from her backwoods home, she and her family are thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie will battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she holds most dear -- her children, her heritage . . . and her triumphant ability to create beauty in the suffocating shadow of ugliness and despair.
language: English
title: The Dollmaker
titlecomplete: The Dollmaker
characters: Clovis Nevels, Gertie Nevels
genres: Family, Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Southern, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 3595
places: Detroit, Michigan, Kentucky
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: HarperCollins