Cora Carlisle is a traditional thirty-something housewife from Wichita when she accepts the job as chaperone for the stunning, irreverent Louise Brooks. Louise has just been accepted into a prestigious dance school in New York City and the two spend five weeks together that will change both of their lives. The story is set in the 1920s, an era of silent film stars and prohibition but the novel encompasses 50 years of Cora's life. After her trip to New York and finally meeting her birth mother, she returns to the Midwest a very different woman, but she spends her whole life looking for happiness, while conforming to the norms of society during those times in history.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
The Chaperone/Laura Moriarty/371 pages
Cora Carlisle is a traditional thirty-something housewife from Wichita when she accepts the job as chaperone for the stunning, irreverent Louise Brooks. Louise has just been accepted into a prestigious dance school in New York City and the two spend five weeks together that will change both of their lives. The story is set in the 1920s, an era of silent film stars and prohibition but the novel encompasses 50 years of Cora's life. After her trip to New York and finally meeting her birth mother, she returns to the Midwest a very different woman, but she spends her whole life looking for happiness, while conforming to the norms of society during those times in history.
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