In the Midnight Room
If McBride is trying to prove-that if you change one life, you change the world-she succeeds magnificently."-Booklist From the author of the acclaime.. Lire la suite
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If McBride is trying to prove-that if you change one life, you change the world-she succeeds magnificently."-Booklist
From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a "jewel of a novel" (BookPage)
about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become
connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness.
Fun-loving
and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world
of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60
years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk
her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one
man, and stand up for more than one woman.
June's story will
intertwine with those of three unlikely strangers: a one-time mail order
bride from the Philippines, a high school music teacher, and a young
mother from Mexico working as a hotel maid. Knit together around June's
explosive secret, they forge a future that none of them foresee.
This
jubilant, compassionate novel explores the unexpected ways that life
connects us, changes us, and even perfects us. A powerful story of lust
and of hope, of redemption and of compassion, In the Midnight Room is a smart, sagacious novel about womanhood, family bonds, and how we live in America now.
