Project Gutenberg 2021-03-24 Public domain in the USA. 175 Miller, Alice Duer 1874 1942 Duer, Alice 24004585 Are Parents People? Are 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. Martin 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.) "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.) Reading ease score: 80.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories, American American fiction -- 20th century PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature Category: Parenthood & Family Relations 507182 2025-06-25T12:54:47.743873 text/html 496491 2024-10-18T12:21:09 text/html 545189 2025-06-25T12:54:54.016836 application/epub+zip 550398 2025-06-25T12:54:48.707858 application/epub+zip 259878 2025-06-25T12:54:48.210901 application/epub+zip 701809 2025-06-25T12:54:58.108828 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 666818 2025-06-25T12:54:53.441883 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 375660 2022-09-29T08:12:00.007335 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 469996 2025-06-25T12:54:46.814986 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 450106 2024-10-18T12:21:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16953 2025-06-25T12:54:58.241840 application/rdf+xml 23457 2025-06-25T12:54:48.324885 image/jpeg 2367 2025-06-25T12:54:48.268874 image/jpeg 493606 2025-06-25T12:54:47.797883 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia