Jan M. Walton Ordine dei libri

Two sisters must reconcile the legacy of their family trauma and the complications of love and work in 1946 Detroit. The war is over, her friends are getting married, and eighteen-year-old Addie heads for a different life in the city. In Detroit, Addie has the foothold of her older sister, Ruth. But Addie walks into the complications of the secrets her sister has kept, and lingering tensions from their childhood. A rocky start in a job she doesn't want makes Addie question her ambitions. But her head for numbers steers Addie through a struggle for Ruth's future and opens the path to her own.

Is a man the sum of what comes his way, or does he make his own way and shape what comes? Sixteen-year-old Dan struggles to hold life together for his siblings when their troubled mother disappears, leaving Dan to confront their tyrant father about the devastating secrets his parents kept from each other. Older Dan reflects on the life-altering choices he made and the man he became to save his family.River Avenue is a story of finding your strength when betrayed by those you love. Set in a 1930s Pennsylvania coal town, themes of resilience and moral choice intersect with the impacts of family trauma disrupting the beliefs we hold about relationships among brothers, sisters, parents, and grandparents.