TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - senior citizens
KW - orphans
KW - widows and widowers
AU - Keith Donohue
AB - On a cold night in January 1985, a nine-year-old orphan girl knocks on the door of Mrs. Margaret Quinn. The old woman grabs the tattered suitcase and takes in the waif who cries that she’s got no place to stay. Soon the widow agrees to serve <em>in loco parentis</em>, names the girl Nora Quinn, and passes her off as an out-of-state granddaughter in need. Margaret had lost Erica, her only child, in 1975. The teenager joined a leftist student guerrilla group called the Angels of Destruction and slipped away.
C1 - 1975-2005
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River
C4 - Literary; Fantasy; Mystery
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - On a cold night in January 1985, a nine-year-old orphan girl knocks on the door of Mrs. Margaret Quinn. The old woman grabs the tattered suitcase and takes in the waif who cries that she’s got no place to stay. Soon the widow agrees to serve <em>in loco parentis</em>, names the girl Nora Quinn, and passes her off as an out-of-state granddaughter in need. Margaret had lost Erica, her only child, in 1975. The teenager joined a leftist student guerrilla group called the Angels of Destruction and slipped away.
PB - Shaye Areheart Books
PP - New York
PY - 2009
RN - Keith Donohue (1960— ), born in Pittsburgh, earned a BA and MA at Duquesne University and a PhD with a focus on Irish literature at the Catholic University of America. He works in Washington, DC, as communications director for the U.S. National Archives's grant-making division, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
EP - 347 p.
TI - Angels of Destruction
ER -