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It is the summer of 1947 and the women of America are ready to welcome home the boys who went to war. All except for the small town of Magrit, where the men, having seen the wider world, are not coming back. And without young men to marry, the future for the young women of Magrit looks bleak.

About the Author

Karen Joy Fowler is the Man Booker shortlisted, bestselling author of Sister Noon (a PEN/Faulkner prize finalist), Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and the story collection Black Glass. She is a PEN/Faulkner Prize finalist and lives in Davis and Santa Cruz, California.