Susan Brown is one of twelve young women keeping the books in a dingy office above a wholesale drug house in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Poor, quick and hopeful, she moves through rented rooms, friendships, a taste of wealthy society and several kinds of love, learning what work and marriage can mean for a woman of her time.
A long, warm portrait of a working girl’s coming of age by one of the most widely read American novelists of her day. Download the free EPUB.