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This new novel by Sullivan (The Empress of One) is an intricate study of the relationships among women, particularly three women of three different generations. Katherine Drew, or Kate; the one who holds the other two together, is the senior member of the threesome and is older than her years because of crippling arthritis. Harriet McCaffery, the businesswoman and almost spinster, has c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Adult/High School An intergenerational novel set in the small town of Harvester, MN, in 1952. At 17, Bess is moving lightly through the remaining weeks of summer before she leaves for college. Her great aunt Kate, who raised her from the age of seven, finds herself crippled further and further by arthritis, even as her wisdom assumes increasingly rigorous power. In the generation between them, Harriet, who came to live with Kate when she was a young woman wanting to escape a stultifying ho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More