Author: Eileen Brill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684631343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past. Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege and opportunity, Joan wrestles with her turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled desires—an internal battle that often results in self-destructive tendencies. When she attempts to push against the norms for women of her time in order to forge her own identity, she is met with resistance. Yet she might also be her own worst enemy, often alienating those who care deeply for her. Both manipulative and vulnerable, naive and conniving, Joan is, like many people, complex and misunderstood. Inspired by a letter written by the real Joan, found hidden in the wall of a Pennsylvania home more than half a century later, this story is a fictionalized imagining of who she was and what motivated her. Moving through several decades and events—from the 1918 influenza pandemic to Prohibition to the Great Depression to Vietnam—A Letter in the Wall examines the internal and external factors that influence one woman’s journey toward independence and empowerment.
A Letter in the Wall
Author: Eileen Brill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684631343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past. Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege and opportunity, Joan wrestles with her turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled desires—an internal battle that often results in self-destructive tendencies. When she attempts to push against the norms for women of her time in order to forge her own identity, she is met with resistance. Yet she might also be her own worst enemy, often alienating those who care deeply for her. Both manipulative and vulnerable, naive and conniving, Joan is, like many people, complex and misunderstood. Inspired by a letter written by the real Joan, found hidden in the wall of a Pennsylvania home more than half a century later, this story is a fictionalized imagining of who she was and what motivated her. Moving through several decades and events—from the 1918 influenza pandemic to Prohibition to the Great Depression to Vietnam—A Letter in the Wall examines the internal and external factors that influence one woman’s journey toward independence and empowerment.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684631343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past. Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege and opportunity, Joan wrestles with her turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled desires—an internal battle that often results in self-destructive tendencies. When she attempts to push against the norms for women of her time in order to forge her own identity, she is met with resistance. Yet she might also be her own worst enemy, often alienating those who care deeply for her. Both manipulative and vulnerable, naive and conniving, Joan is, like many people, complex and misunderstood. Inspired by a letter written by the real Joan, found hidden in the wall of a Pennsylvania home more than half a century later, this story is a fictionalized imagining of who she was and what motivated her. Moving through several decades and events—from the 1918 influenza pandemic to Prohibition to the Great Depression to Vietnam—A Letter in the Wall examines the internal and external factors that influence one woman’s journey toward independence and empowerment.
The Rural New-Yorker
Rural New Yorker
Weekly News Letter
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
The Postal Record
The Survey
Economics of Aging; Toward a Full Share in Abundance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 2076
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 2076
Book Description
Papers and Reports Presented to the Connecticut Historical Society at the Annual Meeting
Author: Connecticut Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Two Centuries Plus
Author: Howard G. Hageman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802800398
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802800398
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Extension Service Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description