Ellen Marie Wiseman

If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother's violent act? Piecing together Clara's fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices....

In the fall of 1918, 13-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the US Army, hoping to prove his loyalty....

On a summer evening, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from her attic bedroom. On this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time - and sold to the circus sideshow....

Ellen Marie Wiseman masterfully viscerally evokes the real-life Willowbrook State School, the infamous Staten Island, New York, mental institution that shocked a nation when exposed in the 1970s as a dumping ground for unwanted children....

In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for listeners of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village....

Ellen Marie Wiseman, aclamada autora de "Lo que dejó atrás" y "La vida que le dieron", teje la historias de dos mujeres muy diferentes...

" Fleuris là où tu es plantée. ", c'est le conseil que Christine Bolz reçoit de sa grand-mère, sa bien-aimée Oma. Mais Christine, 17 ans, domestique, sait que le monde entier l'attend au-delà de son petit village allemand.