Title: The goodbye season
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Coming of age, History, Household employees, Family life, Grief, Mothers and daughters, Ficiton, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Household employees, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Grief, fiction, Texas, fiction, Bildungsromans, Families
Places: Texas
Time periods: 1846-1950