The Reluctant Daughters (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

Elizabeth Ackert-Riis, after spending thirty-five years in denial, to the point of rejecting her own daughter, now sees her duty and is determined to seek revenge against the man running for President of the United States. Set during the 1900 elections, the story moves from Albany, New York, to New York City and then to Kansas City where the Democratic Convention is being held. Elizabeth brings her colleague, Ledger, her daughter, Mary Ellen, and her granddaughters, Barbara and Lily, to the confrontation.Long before the current Me, Too! Movement, Elizabeth learned to cope in a man's world of business, creating untold wealth, despite being shunned in society for her Irish heritage.When she learns her attacker plans to run for the presidency of the United States, she takes it upon herself to bring him down, but it will take the cooperation of her own reluctant daughter and granddaughters to pull off her scheme.Follow Elizabeth, Mary Ellen, Barbara, and Lillian through their struggles to emerge as strong women in their own right.