The Goodbye Season
- ISBN-10
- 0805088555
- ISBN-13
- 9780805088557
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-10-13
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Marian Hale
Description
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
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