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\nOxford\, Mississippi\, 1933. Ab andoned by her mother one Christmas Eve\, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable 'big gi rls' at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum\, she fights each day to keep h er spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun\, unmarried and outspoken\, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's lef t behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip\, Birdie discovers her s ister's seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies. Then\, Birdie encoun ters Charlie\, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates - and Meg's - converge\, Charlie comes up with an audacious pl an to claim what's rightfully theirs. But in a place and time where hypocr isy is rife and women's freedom is fragile\, even the smallest act of defi ance can have dangerous consequences.
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