This House Of Women

This House of Women opens in the small East Texas town of Karankawa. The year is 1942, and the United States has just entered World War II. Pregnant and alone, nineteen-year-old Hannah Hayward arrives in Karankawa in search of a better life. In a richly layered novel that is both historical and genealogical, This House of Women follows Hannah and her family across the decades: through the post-war plenty of the 1950s, the perils of Vietnam, and the Texas oil boom and crisis of the 1980s.