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By: by Alan Lindsay.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Teenage mothers -- Fiction.; Single mothers -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Just look away.
Description: When the birth of her child reveals the hypocrisy of home and church, nineteen year old single mother Holly Perkins eagerly defies God and family. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Alan Lindsay's novel traces Perkins' crisis with meaning as she restructures her personal ideology through her struggle against the puritanical societal mores of her hometown.
Notes: Subtitle from cover: "A novel."