Nightingale
By: Amy Lukavics
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781335012340
Subjects: Self-esteem in adolescence; Teenage girls; Control (Psychology); Self-esteem in women; Fiction; Gender inequality; Sex role; Sexism; Mental institutions
Description: At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be--independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, her whole world is shattered--suburbia isn't the only prison for different women ... --Amazon.com.