The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
© 2012, Text by Molly Beth Griffin
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Published 2012 by Milkweed Editions
Author photo by Kevin Obsatz
Manufactured in Canada in June 2012 by Friesens Corporation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Griffin, Molly Beth.
p. cm.
Summary: During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
eISBN : 978-1-571-31861-9
[1. Feminism—Fiction. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Fiction. 3. Lesbians—Fiction. 4. Ornithology—Fiction. 5. Excelsior (Minn.)—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.G8813593Si 2012
[Fic]—dc23
2011036296
This book is printed on acid-free paper.