The Dogear
Cover of The Dollmaker

The Dollmaker

by Harriette Simpson Arnow

1972 · adult

View on Bookshop.org →also on Amazon · Open Library
Set in 2 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5

Set in

  • ★
    Detroit · United States
    Detroit, Michigan, where Appalachian woodcarver Gertie Nevels is uprooted from rural Kentucky to a wartime Detroit housi
    ★ primary
  • Kentucky · United States
    Appalachian Kentucky homeland the Nevels family leave behind; Gertie's mountain life anchors her identity throughout the

Also set in Detroit

See all →
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Out of Sight
Elmore Leonard
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Dawnie Walton
The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
them
Joyce Carol Oates

Books set nearby

We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
0 km · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
12 km · Grosse Pointe
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
12 km · Grosse Pointe
El Dorado Drive
Megan Abbott
13 km · Grosse Pointe, Michigan