{"product_id":"paper-fortunes-paperback","title":"Paper Fortunes (paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChicago, 1937. The Great Depression has tightened its grip on the city, and three women find themselves bound together by the Elizabeth Sullivan Home for Destitute and Degenerate Women — a crumbling Victorian mansion that promises refuge while quietly trading in secrets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarian Walters, a disgraced nurse, arrives at the Home hoping for a fresh start. Instead she finds herself drawn into the life of Opal Olson—a mentally challenged young woman who turns up at the Home unable to explain her circumstances, carrying only a worn quilt and a small bag of paper fortunes. As Marian attempts to unravel the mystery of Opal's past, a crisis forces her to choose between following the rules and following her conscience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross the city in a Drexel Boulevard mansion, wealthy socialite Evelyn Porter is suffocating beneath her mother's expectations and her own private grief. After a stay at a discreet country sanitarium fails to mend what is broken inside her, Evelyn returns home convinced that one thing alone can save her — and she is about to learn that what she wants most in the world may come at a price she never anticipated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold in three interwoven voices, \u003ci\u003ePaper Fortunes\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about three women whose fates become tangled in a way none of them could have predicted—and the fragile, paper-thin line between the futures we are given and the futures that can still be rewritten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolton Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986448015724,"sku":"9798998757143","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6487\/3068\/files\/PaperFortunes-PPK-new.webp?v=1784730958","url":"https:\/\/shop.michellecoxauthor.com\/es\/products\/paper-fortunes-paperback","provider":"Michelle Cox - Woolton Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}