Books Tell You Why, Inc.

First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust jacket with minor edgewear.

When Carey was five, her mother died. Carey remembers her mother's laugh and the warmth of their home. Carey's father remarried and Carey had two stepmothers. She loved her stepmothers, but she felt like an outsider in their family. Carey's father died when she was seventeen, and she was left to care for her younger brother. Carey worked hard to support her brother and herself and graduated from college with a degree in journalism. She started her own newspaper and became one of the country's most successful journalists. Carey met and married her husband in her early thirties. They had two children and were happy until Carey's husband was diagnosed with cancer. Carey struggled to make ends meet and care for her husband as he battled cancer. When he died, Carey was devastated. She stopped writing and stopped going out. Carey found happiness again when she started volunteering at a nursing home. She became close with the residents and loved spending time with them. Carey wrote a; 8vo; 309 pages.

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