The Stolen Marriage

 


Another book I’d highly recommend. This takes place in Baltimore, and then later in Hickory, North Carolina in the early 1940’s as the polio epidemic is ravaging the country.   Tess, age 23, moves from Baltimore to NC after ending her engagement to the love of her life after agreeing to marry another man. Tess is also a nurse who plays a very important role in the polio treatment hospital.   Her marriage ends up being very strange and loveless.  Most of the people in the town treat her as an outsider. There is a fair amount of tragedy while she is there that she is wrapped up in and she is not happy there for quite some time —even with their husband being a very wealthy highly-esteemed prominent figure. The book also touches quite a bit on racial tensions of that time period and some big differences noted in the rich and the “common.”  Very interesting story about the life Tess is given to lead over this time period.  

Now, this really isn’t the best description of the story because I feel like I it’s hard to get into what the book is all about without giving away some of the main meat of the story—the stuff that keeps you reading to find out what’s going to happen. So. Just know it’s REALLY good and worth it, even if this description is mediocre at best!   

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