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Like Home

by Michele M. Feeney

A family under pressure in Depression-era Michigan

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A family under pressure in Depression-era Michigan

Set in rural Michigan during the Great Depression, the novel brings together the Crowley Reid family’s struggles with illness, financial hardship, work, and an uncertain future. Schoolteacher Mollie tries to protect her career and household while continuing to help her neighbors. Her adopted daughter Cecilia, an art student orphaned in the 1918 influenza epidemic, is searching for her biological family and a clearer sense of identity. Tom, a farmer and store owner, faces the strain of supporting the family amid turbulent politics and concerns about his mental health. Their intersecting challenges frame the book’s exploration of belonging and the bonds formed through mutual care.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical fiction set during the Great Depression.
  • Readers drawn to family stories about adoption, identity, and community support.
  • Readers interested in characters confronting economic hardship and illness.

Themes

Family and belongingAdoption and identityEconomic hardshipIllness and community careWork and responsibility

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Book overview

Mollie Crowley Reid, a schoolteacher, lives in rural Michigan with her husband, Tom, a store owner and farmer, and their adopted daughter, Cecilia, an art student. In the depths of the Great Depression, Mollie receives unexpected news that impacts the future of her family and makes the threats to their economic well-being even more daunting.

Facing these new challenges, Mollie fights to maintain her beloved career, her home, her health, and her family, all the while reaching out to help those around her as best she can. Cecilia, orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, seeks connection with her biological family and her identity as a student and artist. Tom, with sometimes crushing responsibility, fights to maintain his livelihood and mental health, make sense of turbulent politics, and extend compassion and assistance in his community.

Through trials of illness, financial hardship, unsettling times, and family displacement, they discover home is not a place but rather the people who choose to love and support each other through life's unexpected turns. And family, they learn, is built on shared struggles and love.

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