Ellen Marie Wiseman

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.... 

On a summer evening, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from her attic bedroom. On this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time - and sold to the circus sideshow....

Ellen Marie Wiseman masterfully viscerally evokes the real-life Willowbrook State School, the infamous Staten Island, New York, mental institution that shocked a nation when exposed in the 1970s as a dumping ground for unwanted children....

If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother's violent act? Piecing together Clara's fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices....

"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....

Ellen Marie Wiseman, aclamada autora de "Lo que dejó atrás" y "La vida que le dieron", teje la historias de dos mujeres muy diferentes...