Focusing on Jennie Gerhardt, a poor young girl in Columbus, Ohio, this novel depicts her inadvertently defying a host of conventions - of class, gender, family and religion, and emerging triumphant through her incorrigibly loving nature.
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Focusing on Jennie Gerhardt, a poor young girl in Columbus, Ohio, this novel depicts her inadvertently defying a host of conventions - of class, gender, family and religion, and emerging triumphant through her incorrigibly loving nature.
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I haven't been this affected by the lives of fictional characters in quite a while. I was genuinely worried for them, and hopeful for them, and sad for them whenever things went wrong. A couple of times, I thought my heart was being ripped out. There may have even been a lump in my throat once or twice.
And don't let this book's age detour you, either; it is immensely, amazingly, surprisingly readable. Of course, maybe it was just me. Nope, I can't be THAT off.
