The unexpected lives of ordinary girls

Coats, J. Anderson (Jillian Anderson), author.

Book 2025

Set in 1910s Colorado, Stanislava, a first-generation American from a Slovene immigrant family, struggles between her traditional Slovene community and her desire to pursue a new life as she navigates self-determination, family duty, and the search for belonging.

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