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02183aam a2200301 i 4500 001 E5B25884B4EA11E9A95CA01D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190802010026 008 190605s2019 cau 000 1 eng d 010 $a bl2019016645 020 $a 1631525433 020 $a 9781631525438 (softcover) 040 $a IMmBT $b eng $c IMmBT $e rda $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3601.L847 $b W4 2019 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Altman, Diana, $e author. 245 10 $a We never told / $c Diana Altman. 260 $a Berkeley, CA : $b She Writes Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 296 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a It?s the 1950s and the Hollywood lifestyle is at its height. Sonya?s mother is the epitome of her time. Violet is glamorous and beautiful. She puts on a show of living a life of luxury but her daughters know that underneath the glitz, Violet is unhappy. When Sonya is twelve, her grandfather, a Chicago magnate, bankrolls Violet?s divorce and buys her an expensive apartment in Scarsdale, New York. Everyone expects the beautiful Violet to remarry, but none of her suitors stick. Sonya is fourteen when Violet?claiming to have a tumor in her stomach that she must get treatment for in Kentucky, and making her daughters promise not to share this information with anyone?leaves Sonya and her sixteen-year-old sister, Joan, alone with a maid for months. The maid has a heart attack midway through Violet?s absence, leaving the girls alone and scared for weeks. They cannot tell their father, he has visitation rights, because they have promised Violet to tell no one. Their mother left no forwarding address. What has become of her? Sonya is haunted by these events, and the secrets surrounding them. When, years later, she finds out the real story behind Violet?s four-month absence, she realizes that some secrets are best kept secret. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Unmarried mothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Domestic fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20201106011041.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20190802010930.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E5B25884B4EA11E9A95CA01D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search