Pelican Girls: A Novel by Julia Malye on Audiobook New

Pelican Girls: A Novel. Julia Malye

Pelican-Girls-A-Novel.pdf
ISBN: 9780063299757 | 368 pages | 10 Mb

• Pelican Girls: A Novel
• Julia Malye
• Page: 368
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9780063299757
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Download Pelican Girls: A Novel

Books as pdf downloads Pelican Girls: A Novel English version

Overview

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory. Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female “volunteers” of childbearing age—orphans, prisoners, and mental patients—to be shipped to New Orleans. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan, a mute ‘madwoman,’ and an accused abortionist. Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève, along with the dozens of other women aboard La Baleine, have no knowledge of what lies ahead and no control over their futures. Strangers brought together by fate, these brave and fierce young women will face extraordinary adversity—pirates, slavedrivers, sickness, war—but also the private trauma of heartbreak and unrequited love, children born and lost, cruelty and unexpected pleasure, and a friendship forged in fire that will sustain through the years. At once a gorgeously written work of startling depth and emotion and a gripping drama marrying high-seas adventure with pioneer grit, Pelican Girls is a powerful, thought-provoking novel about female friendship and desire and the daunting compromises women are forced to make to survive.

Other ebooks:
{pdf download} The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and the Church by Joseph Ratzinger
[download pdf] Mad World: War, Movies, Sex by Slavoj Zizek
{epub download} Mémento Comptable
[PDF] Reckless Hope by Nyssa Kathryn
Download Pdf Les frères Goncourt - Hommes de lettres
Online Read Ebook Enemies at the Greek Altar by Jackie Ashenden
DOWNLOADS How to Become a Data Analyst: My Low-Cost, No Code Roadmap for Breaking into Tech by Annie Nelson
Download Pdf What's Killing America: Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities by Jason Rantz
PDF [DOWNLOAD] A Dreadful Destiny by Rosemary Rowe on Iphone
PDF EPUB Download Long Shadows by David Baldacci Full Book
DOWNLOAD [PDF] {EPUB} Maïté coiffure