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During the 1930s in a small town fighting for its survival, a conflicted new wife seeks to reconcile her artistic ambitions with the binding promises she has made Fans of Richard Russo, Amor Towles, Sebastian Barry, and Paula McLain will devour this transporting novel about the eternal tug between our duties and our desires, set during in New York City and New England during the Depression and New Deal eras. It's 1935, and Desdemona Hart Spaulding has sacrificed her plans to work as an artist in New York to care for her bankrupt, ailing father in Cascade, Massachusetts. When he dies, Dez finds herself caught in a marriage of convenience, bound to the promise she made to save her father's Shakespeare Theater, even as her town may be flooded to create a reservoir for Boston. When she falls for artist Jacob Solomon, she sees a chance to escape and realize her New York ambitions, but is it morally possible to set herself free?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0143123513
ISBN13:9780143123514
Release Date:April 2013
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:384 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 7.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Contemporary Women Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Literary Literature & Fiction Women's FictionCustomer Reviews
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