The Foundling
A Novel
New York : Marysue Rucci Books, Scribner, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner hardcover edition.
Description: viii, 320 pages ; 24 cm
In 1927, when eighteen-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life-altering consquences.
Subjects:
Mentally ill women -- Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction.
Eugenics -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction.
Mentally ill women -- Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction.
Eugenics -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781982120382