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The Daughters of Erietown

Written by: Connie Schultz
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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New York Times Best Seller

Hidden desires, long-held secrets, and the sacrifices people make for family are at the heart of this powerful first novel by the popular Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

“A moving, unforgettable story about time, progress, and how the mistakes of one generation get repeated or repaired by the next.” (J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times best-selling author of Saints for All Occasions)

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post and New York Post

1957, Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie has the best grades in her class. Her dream is to go to nursing school and marry Brick McGinty. A basketball star, Brick has the chance to escape his abusive father and become the first person in his blue-collar family to attend college. But when Ellie learns that she is pregnant, everything changes. Just as Brick and Ellie revise their plans and build a family, a knock on the front door threatens to destroy their lives.

The evolution of women’s lives spanning the second half of the 20th century is at the center of this beautiful novel that richly portrays how much people know - and pretend not to know - about the secrets at the heart of a town, and a family.
©2020 Connie Schultz (P)2020 Random House Audio
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"Connie Schultz’s The Daughters of Erietown is a quiet force of a novel. It crept up on me, much the same way that time creeps up on these characters. I was struck by how well Schultz portrays a full life - childhood to old age - and all the small moments that shape us, for better or for worse. Its ambitious scope will leave readers wanting to curl up with it until they’ve finished." (Mary Beth Keane, New York Times best-selling author of Ask Again, Yes)

"This is a big, deep, warm, and moving story of unforgettable women who make and shape their families. With the eye and ear of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the insight and language of a born storyteller, Schultz immerses us in The Daughters of Erietown, from love to loss and back." (Amy Bloom, New York Times best-selling author of White Houses)

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Slow start but then...

This family saga is brilliant and I so enjoyed how the author wove together so many great characters. I would highly recommend this book and the narration is perfect.

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Gave it a second chance, but......

....not any better this time around. This novel is NOT of the quality I'd expected from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. I guess writing as a journalist is not at all the same as writing as a novelist.

This one fails on both levels: as a novel, and as an audiobook. I wonder if maybe the book would have stood a better chance without the awful narration....or if the narrator would have been more successful with something better to read. Who knows? The narration made me cringe (over and over again). The attempt to give "voices" to the characters (in particular the male characters) was a failure. I tried adjusting speed to see if it could be made more tolerable, but nope.

The story, meanwhile, was one embarrassing cliche after another. There was no absolutely nothing beautiful in the language, and nothing evocative in the style. It makes me sad actually, as I think maybe the author cared quite a lot about her characters. She just couldn't make me do the same.

I won't go so far as to call it a wasted credit, but I hope I choose better next time.

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