A Dangerous Business, A novel

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning,best-selling author of A Thousand Acres:An amazing mash-up of a Western, a serial-killer mystery and a feminist-inflected tale of life in a bordello (The Washington Post).In 1850s Gold Rush California twoyoung prostitutes, best friends Eliza and Jean, attempt to find their way in a lawless townon the fringes of the Wild Westabewitching combination of beauty and dangeras what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon.Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and dont let anyone tell you otherwise..."Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively)...