Tuesday
March18, 2014
7:00 pm
“In this heart-wrenching historical fiction, prolific
author Chamberlain focuses on a time in North Carolina’s history that most
people would rather forget. It’s 1960, and Jane is a 21-year-old newlywed who’s
just accepted a job as a social worker, though her husband, Robert, would
rather she stay home like the other country club wives. Her clients—poor
tobacco farmers in Grace County, like the Hart family—live in the harsh reality
of the rural South, with too many mouths to feed and not much to feed them.
Jane is eager to help, until she discovers that part of her job is deciding
whether young girls like the vivacious Ivy Hart should be sterilized, in order
to keep them from having babies that depend on the state. A captivating look at
the little-discussed eugenics program that was responsible for sterilizing more
than 7,000 American citizens—some without their knowledge—this engrossing novel
digs deep into the moral complexity of a dark period in history and brings it
to life.” …Publisher’s Weekly
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