By Any Name, Cynthia Voigt
By Any Name, Cynthia Voigt
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By Any Name

Author: Cynthia Voigt

Narrator: Katherine Fenton

Unabridged: 12 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2017

Synopsis

While serving in the USO during WWII, Mumma meets Pops. She's got many suitors, but it's Pops who wins her heart. Their road is rocky though: his family sees his marriage to an orphan as beneath him and her own dreams of being more than just a wife and mother are jeopardized. But while Mumma never counted on there being challenges at every turn, those turns also never anticipated a force of nature like Mumma. Over the next fifty years, she raises four daughters, and they see her as everything from pig-headed to loving. Through their eyes, acclaimed author Cynthia Voigt paints a gorgeous portrait of Mumma in all her complexity and uses it to explore the intense, spirited connection between mothers and daughters.

About Cynthia Voigt

Cynthia Voigt is the Newbery Medal- and Newbery Honor–winning author of more than twenty books, including Dicey’s Song and A Solitary Blue. She is also the author of Little Bird, illustrated by Newbery Medal–winning author Lynne Rae Perkins. She lives in Maine. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by The Candid Cover

Full Review on The Candid Cover As a fan of Cynthia Voigt’s many novels for teens, such as Dicey’s Song, I was thrilled to discover this new adult contemporary. By Any Name is an historical fiction that is reminiscent of Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel. The story of Rida’s life is told through th......more

Goodreads review by Viviane

Rida is an orphan who meets Spencer while she is serving in the USO during WWII and he is serving as a naval officer. They meet at an Officer’s Club Dance. Rida loves to dance and have a good time. She is an orphan from California and has no idea of her origins but doesn’t really care. Actually she......more

Goodreads review by Louisa

I wanted to love this as much as I love Cynthia Voigt’s YA fiction, but Rida isn’t as sympathetic a protagonist as Dicey, or Izzy, or Mina, or as curmudgeonly as Gran. She is definitely a law unto herself, particularly when dealing with marrying into a Boston Brahmin family. She loves Spence truly,......more

Goodreads review by Brenda

The first 100 pages of this book just FLEW by! I read Cynthia Voight's books and loved them when I was in middle school (Homecoming and Dicey's Song! So great!). I was really excited to see her name on a new book and I'm glad to have gotten an advance copy. By Any Name is the story of a woman's life......more

Goodreads review by Baron

goodread.........more

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