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Parry, Leslie, 1979-
Subjects
Orphans -- Fiction.
Asylums -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Parry, Leslie, 1979-
Orphans -- Fiction.
Asylums -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Church
of
marvels
: a
novel
/ Leslie Parry.
by
Parry, Leslie, 1979-
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2015.
Call #:
FICTION PAR
Subjects
Orphans -- Fiction.
Asylums -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062367556
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile
Church
and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The
Church
of
Marvels
, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the
Church
has burnt to the ground, their mother dead in its ashes. Now Belle, the family's star, has vanished into the bowels of Manhattan, leaving Odile alone and desperate to find her. A young woman named Alphie awakens to find herself trapped across the river in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum--sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband's vile, overbearing mother. On the ward she meets another young woman of ethereal beauty who does not speak, a girl with an extraordinary talent that might save them both. As these strangers' lives become increasingly connected, their stories and secrets unfold. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum,
Church
of
Marvels
takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York--a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
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