Ellen Marie Wiseman

A Simultaneous Trade Paperback Edition-Also Available in Hardcover In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement - when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin - in this tragic and uplifting novel of...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Girl, Interrupted meets American Horror Story in 1970s Staten Island, as the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector blends fact, fiction, and the urban legend of Cropsey for a haunting story about a young woman mistakenly imprisoned at Willowbrook State School—the real state-run institution that Geraldo Rivera would later expose for its...

Now repackaged and reissued for the first time since its original release in 2014, Ellen Marie Wiseman's international bestseller merges past and present, as the discovery of an abandoned journal inside a shuttered state asylum compels a young woman to piece together its original owner's fate—with shocking and unexpected results. Illuminating and provocative, What She Left Behind is a haunting...