Ellen Marie Wiseman

Ellen Marie Wiseman masterfully viscerally evokes the real-life Willowbrook State School, the infamous Staten Island, New York, mental institution that shocked a nation when exposed in the 1970s as a dumping ground for unwanted children....

On a summer evening, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from her attic bedroom. On this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time - and sold to the circus sideshow....

If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother's violent act? Piecing together Clara's fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices....

In the fall of 1918, 13-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the US Army, hoping to prove his loyalty....

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village....

Ellen Marie Wiseman, aclamada autora de "Lo que dejó atrás" y "La vida que le dieron", teje la historias de dos mujeres muy diferentes...