Elizabeth Dougherty

A Robin's Pageant Elizabeth Dougherty

A Robin's Pageant is the story of three generations of women: Louella, her daughter, Margaret, and her granddaughter, Sarah. A narrative of love and loss, it lays bare the intricate joys and heartaches of motherhood, and explores the extraordinary undercurrents of ordinary, everyday life. In 1922, widowed and pregnant at nineteen after only two months of marriage, Louella gives up her baby. The repercussions of this decision define who she is when she becomes a wife and mother again twenty years later. Inevitably shaped by Louella's early loss, Margaret and Sarah each explore the challenges and mysteries of motherhood, Margaret looking back, and Sarah, pregnant for the first time, anticipating. When Sarah's baby is born, an unexpected twist brings the novel full circle. Through one family's story, A Robin's Pageant illuminates the combinations of love, joy, grief, and dramatic experience that define our humanity.