Milly Ridge arrives disappointed at a cramped yellow-brick house on Chicago’s West Side and resolves never to settle for so little. The novel follows her schooling, church-going, an early marriage and long campaign for a finer life, through Chicago society and an expatriate Europe of crumbling villas, as her ambitions bend everyone around her.
A sharp-eyed American realist’s study of a charming, grasping woman, as clear about the cost to those who love her as about her dreams. Download the free EPUB.