No Perfect Mothers

by Karen Spears Zacharias

Book Overview

While 1920s Charlottesville, Virginia, is a charming place to grow up, there's one thing Carrie Buck doesn't like about her hometown--her home. Taken from her mother, Carrie is put up for fostering as a toddler. At age ten, Carrie is forced to leave school to work as a domestic. But when Carrie turns up pregnant at seventeen, it is Miss Mora, a Scottish immigrant and Charlottesville's most competent midwife, who she turns to. Fearing their nephew's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088146919X
• ISBN13: 9780881469196
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"