TY  - SOUND
AU  - Hoffman,Alice
AU  - Mueller,Jessie
TI  - The invisible hour: a novel 
SN  - 9781797154794
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Simon & Schuster Audio
KW  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
KW  - Cults
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Time travel
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Time-travel fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Title from container; Read by Jessie Mueller
N2  - Ivy Jacob's ever-disappointed mother and stern father react badly to news of her teen pregnancy, prompting her to run away from her tiny Boston home for Western Massachusetts, where she's embraced by a group called The Community. There, she gives birth to her daughter, Mia, and marries the group's charismatic but controlling leader, Joel, when Mia is three months old. The Community's rules are draconian--members are branded with letters corresponding to their alleged crimes--and eventually the abuse weighs on Ivy's conscience. At 16, Mia secretly takes out books from a nearby library (education and reading are forbidden after members turn 15), and she tries to convince her mother to join her in an escape
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