Author: clarebeams

**A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “Astoundingly original.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of the award-winning debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned, a vivid work of historical fiction with shocking and eerie connections to our own time.** At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in nineteenth-century New England. When…