A Short History of Women

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A New York Times Book Review Book of 2009, now in paperback. A profoundly moving portrait of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN chronicles five generations of women from the close of the 19th century through the early years of the 21st. Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause, the novel traces the echoes of her choice in the stories of her descendants-a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother's infamy, a granddaughter who chooses a conventional path, ...