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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.
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El Rio Sabbathday
December 2000, Siglo XXI Ediciones, Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A.
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8432310360 9788432310362
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The Sabbathday River
Dec 01, 1998, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Brand: Farrar, Straus Giroux
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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.
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