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The novel starts in Britain in 1915, at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to combine Cambridge School. Her decision to starve herself for the cause informs and echoes in the later, overlapping narratives of her descendants. Included in this are her little princess Evie, who becomes a teacher of chemistry at Barnard University in the middle of the century rather than marries, and her granddaughter Dorothy Townsend Barrett, who centers her grief over the loss of her boy by regularly defying the ban on photographing the body of dead soldiers went back to Dover Air Make base from Iraq. The modern day chapters chronicle Dorothy Barrett's girls, both young professionals embarrassed by their mother's activism and baffled when she leaves their father after fifty years of marriage. Walbert deftly explores the ways in which successive years of women have attemptedto articulate what the nineteenth century called ?the girl question.? Her book is a moving representation on the tides of record, and how the lives of your great-grandmothers resonate in our own.
