The goodbye season / Marian Hale.

Author: Hale, Marian.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.

ISBN: 9780805088557 (alk. paper)
0805088555 (alk. paper)

Description: 271 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Family Juvenile fiction.
Household employees Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters Juvenile fiction.
Grief Juvenile fiction.
Coming of age Fiction.
Family life Fiction.
Household employees Fiction.
Mothers and daughters Fiction.
Grief Fiction.
Texas Juvenile fiction.
Texas Fiction.

Summary: In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.