A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map.
In the summers, while helping her mother clean rooms in a shoreside hotel, she.
Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must "sleep on a pallet made of old coats and comforters." She can only dream of the feather beds and perfumed soap to be found in the great city across the bay.
A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map