The Monk Woman's Daughter
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My mother said she was a nun. That may have been a lie. So begins the eye-opening and entertaining tale of Vera St. Johns chaotic upbringing amid the turbulence of nineteenth-century urban America. Sometimes rollicking and sometimes terrifying Veras story features a fascinating array of charactersfrom the troubled woman who bore her to the charming Irishman she marries to the African-American freedman struggling to rescue his wife from slaver to the beautiful high-priced prostitute she befriends to the washerwoman who stands by her in a quixotic quest. From the squalid streets of 1840s New York to the devastation of post-Civil War Memphis Vera threads her way through the powerful conflicts of American history to find where she belongs. Along the way she discovers the nature of power and the true meaning of freedom.
