Title: An American family myth
Description: "Like the widows of other American tragedies, Verna must discover the strength to survive and provide for her family....Following [her husband's] death, Verna, determined to escape poverty, moves to Louisville to attend nursing school....[The author] brings her knowledge of post-traumatic stress and family to this novel of one woman's struggle to cope with traumatic loss.--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Widows, Fiction, Nursing students, Nursing, World War, 1914-1918, Medical care, Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, Women, Suffrage