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Book SynopsisSet during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird''s Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one womanand a nationstruggling to be reborn from the ashes.
The daughter of a famous vaudevillian dancer, Evie Grace Devlin is pushed onto the stage at a young age and dubbed the toe-dancing Pint-Sized Pavlova. Evie hates the glare of the spotlight, no matter how much her fame-obsessed mother forces her into it. A scholarship to study nursing at a Catholic hospital in Galveston, Texas provides Evie with her only hope of escape.
However, just as Evie is about to be certified, secrets from her past are revealed and she is cast out. It's 1932, and she is just one more casualty of the Great Depression, wandering a nation struggling with massive unemployment, economic failure, and government ineptitude. With no choice but to return to her roots, Evie finds workas an unregistered nurselooking after a troupe of marathon dancers. Unexpectedly she is thrust back where
