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In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement—when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin—in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for listeners of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.

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. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving her infant twin brothers alone....   

Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now 17, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloguing items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.

On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn't allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She's never even ventured beyond her narrow room. Momma insists it's for Lilly's own protection, that people would be afraid if they saw her. But on this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time - and sold to the circus sideshow.

Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary—awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears—seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage's stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted. 

"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. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.

Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime....

Un soir d'été de 1931, Lilly Blackwood remarque les lumières d'un cirque depuis la fenêtre de sa mansarde. La petite fille a interdiction d'explorer les alentours de Blackwood Manor... Elle n'est même jamais sortie de sa petite chambre. C'est pour sa sécurité, lui répète sa mère, car Lilly fait peur. Mais cette nuit-là, elle est emmenée en dehors de la propriété, pour la première fois. Et elle est vendue au cirque.

Ellen Marie Wiseman, aclamada autora de "Lo que dejó atrás" y "La vida que le dieron", teje la historias de dos mujeres muy diferentes en una novela que pasa la página tan llena de suspenso como conmovedora, ambientada en medio de una las pandemias más mortíferas de la historia. En el otoño de 1918, la inmigrante alemana de trece años Pia Lange anhela estar lejos del hacinamiento de Filadelfia, calles y barrios marginales, y del sentimiento anti-alemán que obligó a su padre a alistarse en el ejército de los Estados Unidos, esperando para demostrar su lealtad.

Automne 1918. Pia Lange est une jeune immigrée allemande de 13 ans et elle vit avec sa mère et ses petits frères dans un quartier pauvre de Philadelphie. Le sentiment anti-allemand a incité son père à s'enrôler aux côtés de l'armée américaine pour participer à la Première Guerre mondiale afin de prouver sa loyauté, et la famille Lange est sans nouvelles de lui. Mais une nouvelle menace est en train d'arriver. La grippe espagnole se propage dans la ville. Bientôt, la mère de Pia finit par décéder.

" 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. Un monde qu'elle a commencé à apercevoir grâce à la musique, aux livres et à Isaac Bauerman, le fils cultivé de la riche famille juive pour laquelle elle travaille. Pourtant, l'avenir qu'elle et Isaac rêvent de partager fait face à de plus grands défis que leur différence de niveau social.