Daughter of Providence

Name: Daughter of Providence
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Julie Drew
ISBN: 9781611202502

Author: Julie Drew

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 07/26/2011

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

Summer, 1934: Anne Dodge was raised by her old-money, New England Protestant father in the small coastal town of Warwick, Rhode Island. She has always been told that her Portuguese mother abandoned them when Anne was a small child, and died without ever contacting them again. After her mother's death, Anne learns that she has a half-sister, Maria Cristina, who was raised among Portuguese immigrants - and when Maria Cristina comes to stay with Anne and her father, ugly truths begin to surface about what really happened between her parents, catalyzing events that end in loss and rediscovery.

About Julie Drew

Julie Drew grew up in Florida, and attended the University of South Florida where she earned her B.A. in Creative Writing, and M.A. and Ph.D. in English. She is currently Professor of English at The University of Akron. She has done a little traveling, and lived for a year in China with her family. Julie has published numerous academic works, and nonfiction essays and new-fiction reviews in the Boston Globe and Cleveland Plain Dealer, respectively.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne

Oh well. I really wanted to like this book because of the setting - RI where I live - the history, and the family situations. Even in spite of literary license in local interest, some things don't quite jive. I was a bit confused in the beginning of the book who the focus of the book would be - the......more

Goodreads review by Kate

I enjoyed this book. I agree with other Rhode Islanders frustration about the mishmash of RI places, but I tried to suspend that and enjoy the story. And I did. The author touched on a lot of issues without beleaguering them, and I didn’t mind the lack of resolution. It was messy and complicated and......more

Goodreads review by Aimee

This was a sad book. Not the saddest I have ever read, but still a sad book......more