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Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

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A Short History of Women Science_Gift_Guide and your place in aNOMINATED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A profoundly moving literary novel about 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 century. Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause, the novel traces the echoes of her choice in the stories of her