In exchange for a wedding ring, Rachel, hired help in an early-twentieth-century Chicago boardinghouse, agrees to give Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's son, her share of 160 acres from the Homestead
From the author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and longlisted for the Orange Prize.1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashio
?This second engaging novel from Weisgarber . . . has shades of Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, and Conrad Richter.”? Publishers Weekly, starred review Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashi
Short-listed for the Orange Award for New WritersLong-listed for the Orange PrizeWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters Debut Novel PrizeIt is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been
A Publishers Weekly starred review In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from hi
"An eye-opening look at the little-explored area of a black frontier woman in the American West." --Chicago Sun-Times Praised by Alice Walker and many other bestselling writers, The Personal History
