The Bearded Lady

Set against the colorful and often bizarre backdrop of a traveling circus in the early part of the 20th century, The Bearded Lady is the story of two high-spirited, parentless, young sisters — one conventionally beautiful, the other possessing a rather eccentric sort of attraction — who embark on a fascinating and bittersweet journey with their adoptive family of misfits that transforms their lives forever.Thus begins an odd and wonderful story set in rural Georgia. This highly memorable tour-de-force eloquently explores concepts of beauty within our society and reveals freakish attractiveness in strange places. Within a loving, extended family of circus workers who are forced to confront their own troubling circumstances, traditionally defined gender roles are blurred. The plight of women in the early 1900s is explored alongside the relationships and sisterhood of females when faced with hardship, competition, doomed love affairs, and manipulative employers. Yet in the end, love conquers all, and Jessie and Tweets grow up despite unusual and often terrifying obstacles.

• Author
• Sharlee Dieguez

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Hill Street Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781892514158

• Genres
• fiction, novels

• Release date
• 1999