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Book Review of Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden
Author: Elizabeth Engstrom
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Lizzie felt imprisoned by her stepmother's avarice, her sister's emotional blackmail, her father's suffocating love.
But Lizzie was stubborn. if she could not find happiness within the bounds of family and class, she would search elsewhere.
Lizzie's search ended in frustration and disaster.
And one hot August day in 1892, something terrible happened in that cramped house the Bordens called home.