"Twelve-year-old Thomas tries to keep his family together in the midst of the Depression after his beautiful mother inexplicably leaves, and he, his younger sister, and his father, an itinerant butcher, are forced to move into a tent in the Vermont woods."
""A travers les yeux de deux gamins émouvants se dessine une histoire douloureuse, celle de l'Amérique de la Grande Dépression. Un roman bouleversant sur la perte de l'innocence, l'amour filial et la violence qu'engendre la misère."
"Après la crise de 1929, Thomas, douze ans, et sa soeur Margaret, huit ans, se retrouvent seuls. Leur mère s'est enfuie en les abandonnant, et leur père boucher itinérant, parcourt les routes. Ils sont désormais avec leur tante alcoolique, le cruel père "adoptif" de leur propre père ainsi que la riche et manipulatrice Mrs Farley."
"A man is abandoned by his beautiful wife during the Great Depression, leaving him to raise their two children."
"Enduring the Great Depression from within a tent during a Vermont summer, Henry struggles to support his two young children and considers a proposition from a wealthy neighbor, who would hire the children as companions for her homebound son."@en
"Enduring the Great Depression from within a tent during a Vermont summer, Henry struggles to support his two young children and considers a proposition from a wealthy neighbor, who would hire the children as companions for her homebound son."

The lost mother