Gather the daughters
Melamed, Jennie
Gather the daughters - London : Headline Publishing Group, 2017 - 341p
On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day reign inside and outside the home, while girls know that they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, there is an island ritual that offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps to roam wild: they run, they fight, they sleep on the each and build camps in trees. They are free. It is at the end of one of those summers, as the first frost laces the ground, that one of the younger girls witnesses something she was never supposed to see. And she returns home with a truth that could unravel their island world forever.
9781472241702
Gather the daughters - London : Headline Publishing Group, 2017 - 341p
On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day reign inside and outside the home, while girls know that they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, there is an island ritual that offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps to roam wild: they run, they fight, they sleep on the each and build camps in trees. They are free. It is at the end of one of those summers, as the first frost laces the ground, that one of the younger girls witnesses something she was never supposed to see. And she returns home with a truth that could unravel their island world forever.
9781472241702