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Charity Girl Paperback - 2008
by Michael Lowenthal
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Through the eyes of one fictional "charity girl," this novel explores an astonishing time when patriotic fervor and fear led to devastating consequences--when the U.S. government quarantined and incarcerated young women who were thought to have venereal diseases.
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- Title Charity Girl
- Author Michael Lowenthal
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston, MA
- Date 2008
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0618919783I2N00
- ISBN 9780618919789 / 0618919783
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.43 x 0.8 in (20.96 x 13.79 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
During World War I, seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at a Boston department store and strikes out on her own, escaping her repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a wealthy widower twice her age. Determined to find love on her own terms, she is intoxicated by her newfound freedom and the patriotic fervor of the day. That is, until a soldier reports her as his last sexual contact, sweeping her up in the government’s wartime crusade against venereal disease. Quarantined in a detention center, Frieda finds in the Home’s confines a group of brash, unforgettable women who help her see the way to a new kind of independence.
Charity Girl is based on a little-known chapter in American history that saw fifteen thousand women across the nation incarcerated. Like When the Emperor Was Divine, Lowenthal’s poignant, provocative novel will leave readers moved - and astonished by the shameful facts that inspired it.
Charity Girl is based on a little-known chapter in American history that saw fifteen thousand women across the nation incarcerated. Like When the Emperor Was Divine, Lowenthal’s poignant, provocative novel will leave readers moved - and astonished by the shameful facts that inspired it.
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- New York Times Book Review, 01/13/2008, Page 32