Daughters of Eve - Paperback

by Mary Dean Cason (Author)

Set in the fractured landscape of 1968, Daughters of Eve asks what it costs a woman to live fully-and what it costs her family when she cannot.

Fifteen years after her devout Catholic mother is found dead with pills, booze, and an undisclosed pregnancy on board, Nellie Locke returns to her North Carolina home-newly married, newly pregnant, and newly haunted.

A chance encounter with her mother's obstetrician reopens old wounds, and Nellie begins pulling at threads others have spent decades holding tight. What she discovers is a woman she barely recognizes: a gifted artist trapped in a collision with the budding women's movement, marriage, motherhood, and a Catholic Church impervious to change.

Daughters of Eve is a story about the secrets mothers keep, the grief daughters carry, and whether truth is ever truly a comfort.