The Dollmaker
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Dollmaker is a 1954 novel by Kentucky writer Harriette Arnow. Gertie Nevels, a strong, self-reliant farm woman and gifted wood carver, is uprooted from the Cumberland hills when her family follows her husband to wartime Detroit. Crammed into a cramped housing project, Gertie struggles to hold her children and her sense of self together as factory life, poverty and city pressures wear them down. It was a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award.
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- Dolly Parton: “The book that... made me weep uncontrollably: The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow.”