The author of Imaginary Men chronicles the lives of women confronting dramatic changes in their lives and their surroundings, from an Alabama mother, haunted by recently revealed sins from her past, who seeks a fresh start in Florida, to a Jewish woman who journeys to Tibet to reluctantly take on th[...]
Before she became the nineteenth century's greatest heroine, before he had written a word of "Madame Bovary," Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert traveled down the Nile at the same time in 1850. But where history would have these two figures float right by each other, the award-winning writer [...]