Book summary

In the year 1900, a Kentucky farm wife named Christianna Wheeler gives birth to quintuplets. Thousands of strangers mob her home; the fate of the babies (and what happens afterwards) sends Christie and her husband far from home, in a turbulent time in America.

Media reviews

"At once searing and perfectly lyrical...A moving portrait of a woman's struggle to make sense of her peculiar destiny and renown as a mother of the first quintuplets born in North America....[Mason's] finest novel yet."