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by Dori Ann Dupré (Author)
Four generations of women. Four devastating losses.
One unbreakable line. In the sweltering summer of 1944, teenage Betty Clark is looking for something more than the small-town life waiting for her near Fayetteville, North Carolina. When she walks into a USO dance and meets a handsome soldier training at Fort Bragg, she has no idea she is setting into motion a legacy that will shape the women of her family for decades to come.
From Betty to her daughter Patty, who marries a young Army cook and builds a life in Raleigh; to Patty's daughter Stacey, who dreams of flying helicopters in the Army and escaping the boundaries of home; to Stacey's daughter Lena, whose plans for the Peace Corps are shattered by one life-altering phone call, each generation inherits not only its mother's fierce resilience but also the devastating weight of losing the men they love far too soon. Widowhood, fatherless childhoods, and the silence that settles over a house after grief moves in become the invisible threads binding these women together.
Spanning from World War II to the present day, Widows & Children is an epic, deeply emotional saga of women who refuse to break, even when the world gives them every reason to. But how much can one family endure before the next generation finally finds a way to rewrite the story?
