The Daughters of Erietown

Author: Connie Schultz
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2020
Pages: 480
Rating: Highly Recommend

Synopsis: 1957, Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie has the best grades in her class. Her dream is to go to nursing school and marry Brick McGinty. A basketball star, Brick has the chance to escape his abusive father and become the first person in his blue-collar family to attend college. But when Ellie learns that she is pregnant, everything changes. Just as Brick and Ellie revise their plans and build a family, a knock on the front door threatens to destroy their lives.

The evolution of women's lives spanning the second half of the twentieth century is at the center of this beautiful novel that richly portrays how much people know - and pretend not to know - about the secrets at the heart of a town, and a family.

Review: I loved this book - the setting, the plot, the characters (flawed though they are). The Daughters of Erietown felt real to me, as if these people could be my next door neighbors. Set in 1950s, and following the McGinty family into the 1970s, the story is still relevant in 2020.