Emma McChesney has spent ten years on the road selling petticoats for T. A. Buck, and she is the best salesman the firm has. Divorced and raising her son Jock, she handles sly buyers, small-town hotels, flirtatious drummers and the boss’s untried son with wit, nerve and a firm preference for the plain, safe dish of the title.
Ferber’s pioneering portrait of a working woman, sharp and funny more than a century on. Download the free EPUB.