Aunt Sophy Decker, fifty and a ‘stylish stout’, runs a prosperous hat shop and is pitied by a family that has no idea how good her life is. Around her come other stories of midwestern towns and city offices: Old Lady Mandle, You’ve Got to Be Selfish, Long Distance and more, full of the ordinary heroics of working Americans.
Ferber at her best in the short form, two years before her Pulitzer Prize for So Big. Download the free EPUB.