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Songs in Ordinary Time

Mary McGarry Morris · 1995

Mary McGarry Morris's novel follows a struggling single mother in 1960s Vermont drawn into the orbit of a charming con man.

Set in a small Vermont town in 1960, Mary McGarry Morris’s novel centers on Marie Fermoyle, a divorced mother of three struggling to hold her family together. When a smooth-talking drifter enters her life, his schemes ripple through the whole community. Large in scope and dark in tone, the book weaves many lives together into a portrait of ordinary people and quiet desperation.

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