by Joanna Goodman · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789892343679
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«A Casa das Meninas Indesejadas» is the historical novel by Joanna Goodman, published by Edições Asa in paperback (384 pages, in Portuguese).
Maggie Hughes falls in love and becomes pregnant at 16; her daughter Elodie is sent to an orphanage where a law favouring psychiatric hospitals declares her mentally ill. Maggie tries to rebuild her life, but does not forget the girl she abandoned and sets out to find her. It is based on real events and on the author's family history.
First novel in the series «The Home for Unwanted Girls»; the work was originally published in English in 2018.
For those seeking historical fiction based on a real episode in Quebec, with a focus on mother-daughter bonds.
