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The Daughter’s Walk audiobook
- By: Jane Kirkpatrick
- Narrator: Kimberly Farr
- Category: Fiction, Historical
- Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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The Daughter’s Walk Audiobook Summary
A mother’s tragedy, a daughter’s desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives.
In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500-mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save the family farm. After returning home to the Estby farm more than a year later, Clara chose to walk on alone by leaving the family and changing her name. Her decisions initiated a more than 20-year separation from the only life she had known.
Historical fiction writer Jane Kirkpatrick picks up where the fact of the Estbys’ walk leaves off to explore Clara’s continued journey. What motivated Clara to take such a risk in an era when many women struggled with the issues of rights and independence? And what personal revelations brought Clara to the end of her lonely road? The Daughter’s Walk weaves personal history and fiction together to invite readers to consider their own journeys and family separations, to help determine what exile and forgiveness are truly about.
“Kirkpatrick has done impeccable homework, and what she recreates and what she imagines are wonderfully seamless. Readers see the times, the motives, the relationships that produce a chain of decisions and actions, all rendered with understatement. Kirkpatrick is a master at using fiction to illuminate history’s truths. This beautiful and compelling work of historical fiction deserves the widest possible audience.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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The Daughter’s Walk Full Details
| Narrator | Kimberly Farr |
| Length | 13 hours 11 minutes |
| Author | Jane Kirkpatrick |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780307881625 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Daughter’s Walk is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: christian historical fiction, christian fiction books, Christian, Christian fiction, family, mother and daughter, historical fiction, historical, mothers and daughters, suffrage, Spokane, Washington state, womens history, women, 19th century, journey, heros journey, historical women, womens rights, walk, coming together, estrangement, risk, glory, Victorian America, North America, walk across America, challenges, literary fiction, historical fiction books, christian, alternate history, christian fiction, christian books, fiction, Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Christian, Historical The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the The Daughter’s Walk is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780307881625.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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