A love affair tests a new nation’s revolutionary ideals.
In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant’s daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life—until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no longer protect her.
As the chaos of the Revolutionary War tears her family apart, Eliza finds herself drawn to her uncle’s slave, John Watkins. Their love leads to her exile in Braintree, Massachusetts, home to radicals John and Abigail Adams and Eliza’s midwife sister-in-law, Lizzie Boylston. But even as the uprising takes hold, Eliza can’t help but wonder whether a rebel victory will grant her and John the most basic of American rights.
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About the Author
Jodi Daynard is the author of The Midwife's Revolt, a novel, and The Place Within: Portraits of the American Landscape by 20 Contemporary Writers. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, Harvard Magazine, The Boston Globe, Agni, The New England Review, and elsewhere. They have been anthologized and nominated for several prizes. Her essays have also appeared as Notable Mentions in Best American Essays. Joyce Carol Oates recently nominated one of her essays, "Under the Electric Sun," for a Pushcart Prize. She taught writing in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University, at M.I.T., and in the MFA program at Emerson College. Find out more at Jodi's website
jodidaynard.com and find her on Facebook and Twitter @JodiDaynard.
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