The House of Cavanaugh

by Polly Dugan

2025 · Paperback, eBook

In 1964 New York, Joan Cavanaugh carries the secret of her daughter’s true paternity to her grave. Decades later in Portland, a Thanksgiving reunion collides two families and unravels the long deception.

Why it’s here: The secret at its core is kept and reckoned with by older women across the decades — a story of what mothers hold, and what surfaces late.

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