Our Share of Morning

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Her eyes were fixed on my face. Men she said simply. And women. Make mistakes. Blissful dreadful mistakes. But more often than not women pay the price.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>1933. A three-story tenement in a mill town west of Boston. In the third-floor apartment hangs a portrait of unforgettable beauty: Ada a neighbor's daughter who disappeared years before. In the apartment below two sisters-thoughtful sensible Violet and gifted but fragile Glory-come of age unaware of how the missing Ada haunts their lives. As disease and poverty threaten their family they are each other's refuge. But as they reach adulthood the fallout from a broken love affair-while unraveling the mystery of Ada-threatens their bond.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Narrated in turns by each of the sisters Our Share of Morning reveals how contagion misogyny and a series of betrayals force Violet and Glory to face immutable loss. Poignant and poetic the novel is a meditation on meaning fate forgiveness and the fierce endurance of sisterly love.</span></p>