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About The Grandmothers
The Grandmothers is a 1927 novel by Glenway Wescott which received the Harper Novel Prize. Based upon Wescott's own Wisconsin-based family, it is told through the eyes of young Alwyn Tower who leaves the family farm to live in Europe, but who remains haunted and fascinated by his relatives of previous generations: grandparents, great-uncles and aunts, and others from both his mother's and father's side, many of whose lives were upended by the Civil War. Each chapter is devoted to a different family member.
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