Evidence of V, An Unique in Fragments, Truths, and Fictions

” In an ambitious blend of truth and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the age, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, author Sheila O’Connor informs the riveting story of V, a skilled fifteen-year-old singer in 1930 s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Making use of the obscure American practice of putting behind bars adolescent women for “immorality” in the first half of the twentieth century, O’Connor follows young V from her early work as a club entertainer to her subsequent six-year state school sentence for an unplanned pregnancy. As V struggles to make it through within a system only nominally devoted to rescue and reform, she endures injustices that will change the course of her life and the lives of her descendants. Influenced by O’Connor’s research study on her unknown maternal grandma and the long-term impacts of intergenerational trauma, Proof of V: An Unique in Pieces, Truths, and Fictions is a poignant excavation of familial and national history that remains disturbingly relevant-a painful story of exploitation and erasure, and the unlimited methods which ladies, past and present, are penalized for criminal activities they didn’t devote. O’Connor’s collage novel offers an engaging balance between illuminating a shameful and covert chapter of American history and mesmerizing the reader with the vibrant and memorable character of V.”–

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