The goodbye season
By: Marian Hale.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805088557
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction; Family life -- Texas -- Fiction; Household employees -- Ficiton; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Grief -- Fiction; Texas -- History -- 1846-1950 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Ficiton.
Description: In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.