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02684aam a2200397 a 4500 001 2A6A4012A4FD11E3BEFCCB81DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20220408011253 008 140227s2014 000 1 eng u 020 $a 0307948803 020 $a 9780307948809 (trade paperback)\9780307958853 (ebook)\9780307958846 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $d SILO 100 1 $a Smith, April, 1949- 245 12 $a A Star for Mrs. Blake $c by April Smith. 260 $a New York $b Alfred A. Knopf $c 2014. 300 $a 329 pages cm 520 $a "An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie, a wealthy Boston socialite ; Wilhelmina, a former tennis star in precarious mental health; and Cora Blake, a single mother and librarian from coastal Maine. In Paris, Cora meets a journalist whose drug habit helps him hide from his own war-time fate--facial wounds so grievous he's forced to wear a metal mask. This man will change Cora's life in wholly unexpected ways. And when the women finally travel to Verdun to visit the battlegrounds where their sons fought as well as the cemeteries where they are buried, shocking events -a death, a scandal, a secret revealed--will guarantee that Cora's life and those of her traveling companions will become inextricably intertwined, and only now will they be able to emerge from their grief and return home to their loved ones. This is a timeless story set against a footnote of history: little known but unforgettable.."-- 650 $a Cemeteries $x Fiction. $x Verdun $x Fiction. 650 $a FICTION / Contemporary Women. 650 $a FICTION / Historical. 650 $a FICTION / Romance / General. 650 $a Historical fiction. 650 $a Love stories. 650 $a Mothers and sons $x Fiction. 650 $a Parental grief $x Fiction. 650 $a United States $x Fiction. $x 1919-1933 $x Fiction. 650 $a War stories. 650 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Fiction. 941 $a 6 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111012336.0 952 $l JDPC145 $d 20190424011847.0 952 $l MYPC943 $d 20180704033254.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20151126014400.0 952 $l EXPC755 $d 20150109170801.0 $m FIC SMI 952 $l LPPC815 $d 20140306011913.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A6A4012A4FD11E3BEFCCB81DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search