| International Standard Book Number |
9781496758064 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1496758064 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Wiseman, Ellen Marie, author.
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| Title Statement |
The lies they told / Ellen Marie Wiseman.
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| Edition Statement |
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2025.
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| Physical Description |
ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes a reading group guide.
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| Creation/Production Credits Note |
Includes bibliographic references (page 366).
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In 1930s Virginia, Lena Conti, a young immigrant mother separated from her family at Ellis Island, builds a new life in the Blue Ridge Mountains but must resist a brutal eugenics campaign that targets her community and threatens to take her daughter"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
When Lena Conti -- a young, unwed mother -- sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned. Silas Wolfe, a widowed family relative, reluctantly brings Lena and her daughter to his weathered cabin in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to care for his home and children. Though the hills around Wolfe Hollow remind Lena of her homeland, she struggles to adjust. Worse, she is stunned to learn the children in her care have been taught to hide when the sheriff comes around. As Lena meets their neighbors, she realizes the community is vibrant and tight knit, but also senses growing unease. The State of Virginia is scheming to paint them as ignorant, immoral, and backwards so they can evict them from their land, seize children from parents, and deal with those possessing "inferior genes." After a social worker from the Eugenics Office accuses Lena of promiscuity and feeblemindedness, her own worst fears come true. Sent to the Virginia State Colony for the Feebleminded and Epileptics, Lena face impossible choices in hopes of reuniting with her daughter--and protecting the people, and the land, she has grown to love.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Single mothers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Involuntary sterilization Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Eugenics United States Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women immigrants Virginia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Virginia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Blue Ridge Mountains Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Social problem fiction.
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