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THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIETOWN

Connie Schultz

Hidden desires, long-held secrets, and the sacrifices people make for family and to realize their dreams are at the heart of this powerful first novel about people and life in a small town.

THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIETOWN are three women: Ellie McGinty, her daughter Sam, and Rosemary Russo, whose lives intersect because of their love for Brick McGinty, as husband, father, and lover, respectively. It is a story about family secrets, and how they're seldom as compact or secure as we want to think. When faced with life's challenges, how will these three women carve out lives that increasingly resemble their heart's desires, rather than the limitations imposed on them by others?

Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a professional-in-residence in the journalism school at Kent State University, her alma mater.

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Book Published 2020-06-09 by Random House

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This is a big, deep, warm and moving story of unforgettable women who make and shape their families. With the eye and ear of a Pulitzer prizewinning journalist and the insight and language of a born storyteller, Schulz immerses us in The Daughters of Erietown, from love to loss and back.

Absorbing. At times, this closely observed family saga reads like comfort food, peppered with nostalgic references.. But this quiet, Anne Tyler-esque novel is also a reminder that gentler times were not always gentle, that life is filled with hardship even without existential threats.

Connie Schultz's The Daughters of Erietown is a quiet force of a novel. It crept up on me, much the same way time creeps up these characters. I was struck by how well Schultz portrays a full life, childhood to old age, and all the small moments that shape us, for better or for worse. Its ambitious scope will leave readers wanting to curl up with it until they've finished.

Like Jennifer Weiner's Mrs. Everything...the novel sharply illuminates evolving social mores and tucks in plenty of womanly wisdom... A masterful debut novel.

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Schultz enlivens the narrative with sharp cultural commentary and precise period details. This story of family secrets rises above - and is tougher than - the rest. Read more...

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While Schultz's compelling narrative and realistic characters will keep readers turning pages into the night, her eye and ear for real-life details set this novel apart from other domestic sagas. Part tragic love story, part powerful testament to shifting cultural norms and the evolution of the women's movement, The Daughters of Erietown is an impressive first novel with a big heart.

The kind of smart, authentic story that both men and women will find riveting. Don't miss it.

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Connie Schultz has long been one of the great chroniclers of the American Dream, telling the true stories of everyday men and women with compassion, heart, wit and wisdom. Her powerful debut novel contains all that, plus the essential magic that only fiction can provide. Schultz offers up a deep exploration of the inner lives of one family. Their hopes, desires, and heartaches blaze forth on every page. A moving, unforgettable story about time, progress, and how the mistakes of one generation get repeated or repaired by the next.