The madam
Subtitle: a novel
By: Julianna Baggott.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Women -- West Virginia -- Fiction; Women -- Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Prostitutes -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A novel based on the author's ancestry finds Alma, having left behind her family, opening up a whorehouse in 1924 Florida before loneliness for her children prompts her to intervene in her daughter's marriage with an abusive police officer.