Barnacle Book Club
About this event
The Lies They Told
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Discussion Leader: Floss Boulden
In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement – when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin – in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for readers of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.
When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned.
Grab a book and join us!
Monica
Location
SBYC
23rd Street
Spray Beach, NJ 08008
USA
609-492-6845
Contacts(s)
Monica E Kanopka
Category
Auxiliary Recurring Activity
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