{"id":69980,"date":"2025-08-23T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/what-she-left-behind-a-haunting-and-heartbreaking-story-of-1920s-historical-fiction\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:03:10","slug":"what-she-left-behind-a-haunting-and-heartbreaking-story-of-1920s-historical-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/what-she-left-behind-a-haunting-and-heartbreaking-story-of-1920s-historical-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"What She Left Behind: A Haunting and Heartbreaking Story of 1920s Historical Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Half a million copies sold!
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The breakout novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector, What She Left Behind weaves together riveting stories of past and present, exploring the strength of women in two different times as they face adversity in two very different ways. Go inside the horrifying walls of a 1920s New York asylum as a wrongly imprisoned woman fights for what is most important to her\u2014and meet the young woman confronting the pain and mystery of her own family\u2019s mental illness two generations later.
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Ten years ago, Izzy Stone\u2019s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother\u2019s apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy\u2019s help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.\u00a0
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Young flapper and suffragette Clara Cartwright is caught between her overbearing parents and her desire to be a modern woman. \u00a0Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, instead finding love with an Italian Immigrant, Clara\u2019s father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids. But when his fortune is lost in the stock market crash of 1929, he can no longer afford her care\u2014and Clara is committed to the public asylum.
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Even as Izzy deals with the challenges of yet another new beginning, Clara\u2019s story keeps drawing her into the past. If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother\u2019s violent act? Piecing together Clara\u2019s fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices\u2014with shocking and unexpected results.
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\u201cScreams with authenticity, depth, and understanding.\u201d
\u2014The New York Journal of Books
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\u201cA real page turner\u2026will appeal to all readers of fiction.\u201d
\u2014The Historical Novels Review
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\u201cAmazing\u2026A great read!\u201d
\u2014The San Francisco Book Review
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\u201cWill both haunt and inspire you\u2026 a moving, and at times chilling story that totally endears you to her characters.\u201d
\u2014SpaWeek
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\u201cA great coming-of-age story.\u201d
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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Kensington
Publication date \u200f : \u200e August 27, 2019
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Print length \u200f : \u200e 368 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 1496730038
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1496730039
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 11.8 ounces
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.45 x 0.89 x 8.15 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #6,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #54 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #65 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #105 in Family Life Fiction (Books)
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