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When Ann Fay, a teenager, steps into the role of "man of the house" in her Southern home, she must navigate the challenges of family leadership amid her absent soldier father's wartime service. Facing personal tragedy and the devastating 1940s polio epidemic, she struggles to keep her family united and herself sane in the rural landscapes of North Carolina.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Joyce Moyer Hostetter
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