Sold on a Monday, Kristina McMorris
Sold on a Monday, Kristina McMorris
8 Rating(s)
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.20
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Sold on a Monday

Bestseller

Author: Kristina McMorris

Narrator: Brian Hutchison

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/28/2018


Synopsis

A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes the story behind the picture is worth a thousand more. 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. In 1931, near Philadelphia, ambitious reporter Ellis Reed photographs the gut-wrenching sign posted beside a pair of siblings on a farmhouse porch. With the help of newspaper secretary Lily Palmer, Ellis writes an article to accompany the photo. Capturing the hardships of American families during the Great Depression, the feature story generates national attention and Ellis's career skyrockets. But the piece also leads to consequences more devastating than he and Lily ever imagined -- and it will risk everything they value to unravel the mystery and set things right. Inspired by a newspaper photo that stunned readers throughout the country, Sold on a Monday is a powerful novel of ambition, redemption, love and family.

About Kristina McMorris

Kristina McMorris is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of Letters from Home and Bridge of Scarlet Leaves. She is the recipient of more than twenty national literary awards, as well as a nominee for the prestigious RITA Award. Kristina has also been named one of Portland's "40 Under 40" by the Business Journal. She lives with her husband and two sons in Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on July 22, 2018

This is the book I have waited over two years for, the one I have most anticipated this summer! Five stars to Sold on a Monday! 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 I read Kristina McMorris’ last book, The Edge of Lost, the day my preorder arrived, which was the day before Thanksgiving 2015. I can remember that book on my cou......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on July 12, 2023

3.5 stars. Oh, that cover!!! If my rating were based on book cover alone, this would be a 5+ star! Perhaps due to my intense attraction to that heart-wrenching cover along with the book blurb, my expectations may have been set a little too high. With that stated, it was still an enjoyable story, just......more

Goodreads review by Debra on July 23, 2018

3.5-star rating Children for Sale The sign sits on a porch in 1931. It's the time of broken dreams, lost fortunes and heartbreak. What a decision to make - to sell you children. This is the scene which journalist Ellis Reed comes upon while reporting on another story. He decides to take some pictures......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on July 20, 2018

3.5 stars I can’t stop thinking about the photographs - the cover of this book and the one that Ellis stages to support his piece for the newspaper he works for after his first photo is inadvertently destroyed, and the one in the author’s note that inspired her to write this book. I always love know......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on September 29, 2018

Most of us studied it in school. Some of us listened to stories from our grandparents. Luckily, the Great Depression is something that none of us ever had to live through. We heard the stories of extreme poverty, vacant lots of cardboard boxes used for shelter, soup kitchens, worn out clothing, desp......more