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Author Johnston, Sharon, 1943- author.

Title Patchwork society / Sharon Johnston
Published Toronto : Dundurn, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series The bread and roses series
Summary "A sweeping tale of life in Sault Ste. Marie from the 1930s through the Second World War. Clara Durling and her teenage daughter, Ivy, move to Sault Ste. Marie in 1932, where Clara is starting a job as head nurse at the local residential school. As Clara adjusts to life in the Soo and tries to scrape together funds to buy a duplex, she discovers the town is a many-layered society. Clara works with Indigenous children who have been ripped from their communities, and now live a frightening, lonely life in a crumbling building. While Clara struggles to deal with the despair at the school, Ivy makes a friend from the working-class Italian community and is dragged into the bootlegging underworld. After high school, Ivy heads to nursing school in Montreal, but finds society's expectation for young women does not foster their self-reliance. As Ivy struggles with sexism and societal norms, she and Clara seek to bring humanity to those living at the margins of society."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Widows -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Adjustment (Psychology) -- Fiction
FICTION / Historical / General.
Adjustment (Psychology)
Widows
Young women
Genre/Form Historical fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781459737068
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9781459737075