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The Sabbathday River

When a baby dies in a conservative town in New Hampshire, a woman is unjustly accused of murder, a single mother of unconventional ways. Luckily for her, a New York feminist is at hand to help and she organizes her defense.

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  • "Sabbath Day River"
  • "Sabbath Day River"@en
  • "Sabbathday river"@it

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  • "When a baby dies in a conservative town in New Hampshire, a woman is unjustly accused of murder, a single mother of unconventional ways. Luckily for her, a New York feminist is at hand to help and she organizes her defense."@en
  • "When a baby dies in a conservative town in New Hampshire, a woman is unjustly accused of murder, a single mother of unconventional ways. Luckily for her, a New York feminist is at hand to help and she organizes her defense."
  • "A big, suspenseful, emotionally charged new novel by the author of A Jury of Her Peers. One warm September morning in 1985, not far from the town of Goddard, New Hampshire, Naomi Roth finds the drowned body of a newborn baby girl floating in the Sabbathday River. The community rapidly fingers Heather Pratt, a young single mother notorious for her affair with a married man, as the prime suspect, and after intensive interrogation by the police, Heather confesses to the crime. When Naomi, following Heather's directions, uncovers the body of a second infant-who was born on the same day as the other baby-on Heather's property, she assumes charges against the girl will be dropped. Instead, to Naomi's amazement, Heather is charged with the murder of both infants. Naomi, herself something of an outcast in conservative Goddard, is moved and angered by Heather's plight, and goes to work with Judith Friedman, a lawyer, to defend her. But when the truth at the heart of this astonishing case finally comes to light, it is Naomi who must confront how little she has truly understood about her town, her friend, and herself. Jean Hanff Korelitz has written a powerful, hypnotically readable work that reverberates with enormous impact."
  • "Naomi Roth finds the body of a little girl near her home in Goddard, New Hampshire. She is shocked when the community quickly blames a young single mother and sets out to find the truth."@en
  • "The first baby was found early on a weekend morning in September 1985, as the whole broad length of the Upper Valley braced for its annual riptide of strangers, and as the first maples on the banks of the Sabbathday River prepared to burst, obligingly, into flame. Jogging outside the town of Goddard, New Hampshire, Naomi Roth finds the body of a newborn baby girl floating facedown in the Sabbathday River. News of the dead child spreads quickly through Goddard, and Naomi--an aging idealist, a former VISTA volunteer, and the founder of a women's quilting cooperative--is shocked when the community swiftly, implausibly fingers Heather Pratt, a young single mother notorious for her affair with a married man, as the prime suspect. It comes as an even greater shock when, after a long interrogation behind closed doors, Heather confesses to the crime. Moved and angered by Heather's plight--and increasingly isolated in conservative Goddard--Naomi engages the help of Judith Friedman, a lawyer and fellow "flatlander," to defend the young woman. But when the truth at the heart of this astonishing case--and the body of a second baby--comes to light, it is Naomi who must confront how little she has understood her town, her friend, and herself. The Sabbathday River builds to a truly surprising ending that casts everything that came before in a new light. This is a hypnotic, enormously resonant novel by one of the most powerful writers to emerge in recent seasons."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Legal stories"@en
  • "Legal stories"

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  • "The Sabbathday River"@en
  • "The Sabbathday River"
  • "THE SABBATHDAY RIVER: A Novel"@en
  • "The sabbathday river"
  • "Sabbathday river"
  • "Il fiume degli innocenti"@it
  • "Il fiume degli innocenti"
  • "El río Sabbathday"@es

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