Bøger af Cathy Hester Seckman

Once known as the Pottery Capital of the World, East Liverpool boasted some 300 potteries in its heyday, along with many ancillary industries. When British immigrant Thomas Bennett found promising clay deposits along the riverfront, he opened the city's first one-kiln pottery in 1839. From that humble beginning, the industry burgeoned, eventually spreading up the hills and across the river. Besides sturdy kitchenware, hotel china, toilet ware, and ceramic doorknobs and insulators, the potteries produced such elegant designs as Lotus Ware, Lu-Ray, and Fiesta Ware. The men, women, and children who worked in the potteries also built a town with a busy and complex social life. Churches, schools, cultural and service organizations, theaters, and restaurants filled the downtown area. East Liverpool struggled after the collapse of the pottery industry in the second half of the 20th century but has persevered into the 21st century with hope for the future.

On Rightside/Wrongside, women are in charge and men live behind the Border Fence. Their only interactions are for sex, which women control with rigid laws. Mothers raise daughters, and fathers know nothing of them. Women send sons across the Fence and never know if they live or die. Rightside President Alanna Olaffson and her countrywomen believe female empowerment is good and necessary, right up to the time it goes frighteningly wrong. Jessie, pregnant with a boy, meets Tenosha, who recently sent her son across the Fence. Unwilling to accept Rightside's laws, they hatch a plan that grows beyond their control. Smuggling, sabotage, kidnapping, and civil war force a cataclysmic face-to-face confrontation.

1966 was the beginning of everything for college friends Katy, Elsa, and Sunny. Katy had met what she was sure was the love of her life, Elsa had discovered her calling, and Sunny had found Doc. After college, Elsa changes her name to Elise and chases movie stardom in Hollywood, while Katy drifts into a fairytale marriage with politically ambitious David. Sunny and Doc found a commune in Tennessee where Doc struggles with memories of Vietnam and Sunny raises other people's children. Star, their oldest, grows into a headstrong, opinionated teen who resents her boring responsibilities and believes her parents are impossibly naïve. When she discovers her parents aren't who she thought they were, she unleashes cataclysmic change in the lives her parents and their old college friends.

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