Girls Who Grew Big Craftsmanship

Craftsmanship

is replacing parents in the lives of children

" --Laura Miller

Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia

the flow of the very blood in our veins

Girls Who Grew Big CraftsmanshipFrom the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle. Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother's home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. When she arrives, Adela meets Emory, who