The lost women of Azalea Court, a novel, Ellen Meeropol
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Label
The lost women of Azalea Court, a novel, Ellen Meeropol
Language
eng
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Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The lost women of Azalea Court
Oclc number
1296689201
Responsibility statement
Ellen Meeropol
Sub title
a novel
Summary
On a chilly November morning, eighty-eight-year-old Iris Blum goes missing from Azalea Court, a six-bungalow development on the grounds of a long-closed state mental hospital. Her husband, Asher Blum, was the last head psychiatrist at the hospital and is writing a book about the treatment of mental illness. When the searches and interviews come up empty, the neighbor women dig into the past-Asher's childhood experiences with anti-Nazi partisans in the forests of Poland, unethical practices at the mental hospital, and Iris's mysterious best friend, Harriet
Target audience
adult