Eleven years ago Ruth Holland left her Iowa town with Stuart Williams, a married man, and the town has never forgiven her. When she comes home to her dying father, the old friends who once loved her, and above all Dr. Deane Franklin, must decide where their own loyalties lie, and Glaspell weighs what fidelity to others and to oneself might mean.
A thoughtful 1915 novel by the Pulitzer-winning playwright of Trifles, ahead of its time on women’s freedom. Download the free EPUB.