Fanny Brandeis grows up in a Wisconsin town where her widowed mother keeps a store and holds the family together by sheer will. Grown, Fanny sets her Jewish upbringing and her gift for drawing aside and fights her way up in a vast Chicago mail-order house, until the question of who she really is will not stay buried.
Ferber’s most autobiographical novel, written in 1917, and a sharp portrait of ambition, faith and a mother-daughter bond. Download the free EPUB.