Violet helps her sixteen-year-old sister, Lily, travel to an infant asylum in Philadelphia so Lily can have her child in secret. They do not know the asylum's physician is experimenting on the girls with eugenics. After five years, both women are back in Scranton finding their way in marriage and engagement and grapple with their worth and virtue.
- ISBN10 1617754439
- ISBN13 9781617754432
- Publish Date 18 August 2016 (first published 13 June 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English