In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: families, texas, juvenile fiction, household employees, mothers and daughters, grief, coming of age, fiction, texas, history, 1846-1950, juvenile fiction, fiction