Book Details:
Book Title: A Daughter's Journey by Myra Lee Glass
Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 132 pages
Genre: YA Historical Fiction / Adventure
Publisher: Coleche Press
Release date: Feb 2023
Content Rating: G: Written for a high school school project :) by a highschooler
Book Title: A Daughter's Journey by Myra Lee Glass
Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 132 pages
Genre: YA Historical Fiction / Adventure
Publisher: Coleche Press
Release date: Feb 2023
Content Rating: G: Written for a high school school project :) by a highschooler
Book Description:
The year is 1938 and a family in the small South Carolina town of Beaufort faces serious adversity. After the birth of her long-awaited son, Mary Banks dives into a dark postpartum period, throwing her into a deep depression. Thinking that her sister, Rose, is offering her a helping hand, Mary leaves her family and goes to Boston in search of a medical cure, not to be heard from again.
Where is Mary Banks? What has Rose done with the much-loved mother and wife of the Banks family? Finally, Mary’s 15-year-old daughter, Estelle can wait no longer. She gathers her wits and her courage and without a word, runs off to heroically rescue her beloved mother in faraway Boston. This is where the adventure begins……
The year is 1938 and a family in the small South Carolina town of Beaufort faces serious adversity. After the birth of her long-awaited son, Mary Banks dives into a dark postpartum period, throwing her into a deep depression. Thinking that her sister, Rose, is offering her a helping hand, Mary leaves her family and goes to Boston in search of a medical cure, not to be heard from again.
Where is Mary Banks? What has Rose done with the much-loved mother and wife of the Banks family? Finally, Mary’s 15-year-old daughter, Estelle can wait no longer. She gathers her wits and her courage and without a word, runs off to heroically rescue her beloved mother in faraway Boston. This is where the adventure begins……
My Thoughts:
Estelle is a young fifteen-year-old girl living in the year 1938 with her father and expectant mother. As the birth of her younger sibling approaches, her parents are tired but happy. Her mother then gives birth to Jerry, a healthy baby boy. But then things change.
The care of Jerry falls on Estelle and her father as her mother barely even gets out of bed. Neither of them knows what to do or how to help her. Then her mother states that she is leaving to go and be with her sister in Boston and get help from the doctors there. However, when her mother quits writing, Estelle decides to take it upon herself to go and find her mother. Leaving all she holds familiar and traveling to an unknown city is going to take more bravery than Estelle has ever known. But is Estelle prepared for what she finds out?
This is an interesting story that touches on post partem depression and the rather primitive ways it used to be treated. This is a story that shows a daughter's love for her mother and family and will not give up until she finds her. Filled with unexpected friends and ruthless enemies, Estelle has quite a journey. The only thing missing was an epilogue.
I was provided a copy of this novel from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.
Meet the Author:
Myra Lee Glass is a young adult author of A Daughter's Journey. She lives in Texas with her parents and sister.
Myra Lee Glass is a young adult author of A Daughter's Journey. She lives in Texas with her parents and sister.
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Sounds like a book I will like.
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