02462cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000350012624500240016126400510018530000470023633600260028333700260030933800360033550000310037150501950040250801940059752011920079153400450198365300280202865300370205685600430209364917UtSlPG20260610134510.0mcr n260607r2021||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d a24004585 aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aMiller, Alice Duer,d1874-194210aAre Parents People? 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2021 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aRelease date is 2021-03-240 aAre parents people? -- The American husband -- Devoted women -- The return to normalcy -- The red carpet -- The widow's might -- Whose petard was it? -- The new stoics -- Worse than married. aMartin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) a"Are Parents People?" by Alice Duer Miller is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Lita Hazlitt, a young girl navigating her complicated relationships with her divorced parents, who exhibit a deep-seated animosity toward each other. Set in a boarding school context, the book explores themes of family dynamics, childhood innocence, and the emotional turmoil faced by a child caught between two feuding parents. The opening of the novel introduces Lita during a school chapel service, where she grapples with the tension of her parents' presence at the school. Her mother and father, despite their long-standing divorce, harbor unresolved feelings toward each other, creating a difficult situation for Lita, who has to navigate her loyalties. As tensions between her parents rise, Lita’s reflections reveal her feelings of obligation and confusion about affection, showcasing her struggle to assert her own identity amid the emotional manipulations of her parents. Through Lita's experiences, the novel promises an exploration of the complexities of love, loyalty, and the pressures of parental expectation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) nOriginal publication data not identified aShort stories, American aAmerican fiction -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64917