Claire Robson sits beside her smug, conventional mother in a San Francisco church hall when a foreign lecturer takes the platform, and his halting words break through the frozen politeness of the room. Dobie follows Claire as that moment draws her out of her family’s narrow certainties and into the city’s immigrant world, with its unfamiliar loyalties and passions.
A San Francisco novel by a writer who knew his city street by street, for readers of early twentieth-century American realism. Download the free EPUB.