Child Bride
Author | : Jennifer Smith Turner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781684630394 |
ISBN-13 | : 1684630398 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Child Bride written by Jennifer Smith Turner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. Married off when she turns sixteen, she journeys from the South to the city of Boston, where she must quickly learn first how to be a wife to a controlling and emotionally abusive husband, and then a mother. After giving birth to three children, Nell’s body begins to fail her. Her husband, concerned for her health, pulls away from her physically. But this void of intimacy drives Nell into the arms of another man, Charles— an encounter that leads to another pregnancy, and another unanticipated adventure for Nell.