Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse.
This is Kelsey Patterson with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today, I’m recommending Sarah Pearse’s debut novel,
The Sanatorium. An instant
New York Times bestseller, this book was also a recent Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium for tuberculosis patients has since been renovated into a 5-star minimalist hotel.
An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective after a particularly traumatizing case, so when her estranged brother Isaac and his fiancée Laure (Lor) invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, she really has no reason not to accept. Arriving in the midst of
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Listen to Jennifer Havlik as she recommends American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser. This is Jennifer Havlik with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today I’m recommending
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser. This recently released work of nonfiction tells the story of Margaret Erle who falls in love and becomes pregnant with her first child at the age of sixteen. Unfortunately for Margaret and many young women like her, she came of age at a time when birth control was difficult to obtain, abortions were illegal, and young, unwed mothers were deemed pariahs. With the threat of eternal shame looming over her family, Margaret is sent to a home for unwed mothers where she discreetly gives birth. While she dreams of marrying her boyfriend and keeping her son, she doesn’t realize the battle she’s up against.