Pamela Thompson author of Every Past Thing December 8, 2007

Set in Western Massachusetts and NYC

In 1899, the streets of New York were as unsettled as the heart and body of Mary Jane Elmer. The ideas of the transcendentalists had taken root, and thoughts of a second revolution were rising. Emma Goldman spoke to ever-growing numbers of the disenfranchised in Union Square and scandalized the city fathers. Police used horses, clubs and bullets to disperse the crowds. Women were redefining their roles for the coming century. And, at 40 years of age, solitary in marriage to a brilliant and talented man and still grieving the death of their daughter ten years past, Mary tries her best to find a future she can endure.

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