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When the birth of her child reveals the hypocrisy of home and church, nineteen year old single mother Holly Perkins eagerly defies God and family. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Alan Lindsay's novel traces Perkins' crisis with meaning …

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When the birth of her child reveals the hypocrisy of home and church, nineteen year old single mother Holly Perkins eagerly defies God and family. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Alan Lindsay's novel traces Perkins' crisis with meaning as she restructures her personal ideology through her struggle against the puritanical societal mores of her hometown.

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"When the birth of her child reveals the hypocrisy of home and church, nineteen year old single mother Holly Perkins eagerly defies God and family. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The …"

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