All waiting is long

Resource Information

The work All waiting is long represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

All waiting is long

Creator

• Taylor, Barbara J

Contributor

• Gilbert, Tavia
• hoopla digital

Author

• Taylor, Barbara J

Subject

• Scranton (Pa.) -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction
• Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction
• Involuntary sterilization -- Fiction
• Marriage -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

All Waiting Is Long tells the stories of the Morgan sisters, a study in contrasts. In 1930, twenty-five-year-old Violet travels with her sixteen-year-old sister Lily from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the Good Shepherd Infant Asylum in Philadelphia, so Lily can deliver her illegitimate child in secret. In doing so, Violet jeopardizes her engagement to her longtime sweetheart, Stanley Adamski. Meanwhile, Mother Mary Joseph, who runs the Good Shepherd, has no idea the asylum's physician, Dr. Peters, is involved in eugenics and experimenting on the girls with various sterilization techniques. Five years later, Lily and Violet are back home in Scranton, one married, one about to be, each finding her own way in a place where a woman's worth is tied to her virtue. Against the backdrop of the sweeping eugenics movement and rogue coal mine strikes, the Morgan sisters must choose between duty and desire. Either way, they risk losing their marriages and each other

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

813.6

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

PerformerNote

Read by Tavia Gilbert

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable