Mary Coin

Historical Fiction

Author: Marisa Silver

*An NPR Best Book of 2013**A BBC Best Book of 2013*In her first novel since The God of War, the critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their chance encounter.In 1936, a young mother resting b….Read More

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