Title: Zorrie
Description: After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cast into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finds the love and community that has always eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg, but discovers that her trials have only begun. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: New York Times reviewed, Young women, fiction, Indiana, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Orphans, Fiction, Young women, City and town life, Radium processing plants, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Literary, Identity (Psychology), History