"A Good Woman" by Louis Bromfield is a story set in the early 1900s, that follows Emma Downes, a strong single mother who owns a bustling bakery after her husband left. Determined, she works hard to teach her son, Philip, the values she believes in, while also dealing with the challenges of who he is and the impact of his father's past. The novel starts with Emma coming home from a Woman’s Christian Temperance Union meeting and finding a letter from Philip. At first, she's proud of his work as a missionary in Africa, but then she's upset when he suddenly decides to quit. The letter makes her worry about Philip's future and whether he'll be like his father. As she thinks about her past decisions and the difficulty of raising her son by herself, Emma feels both proud and worried about the path Philip is taking, which leads to the main conflict of the story.
A good woman
By Louis Bromfield
A mother's carefully constructed world teeters as her son's unexpected choices force her to confront the past she desperately tried to bury.
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About the AuthorLouis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.
Louis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.
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