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From acclaimed literary critic Michelle Dean, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, a powerful portrait of 10 writers who managed to make their voices heard amidst a climate of sexism and nepotism. Featuring writers from the 1920s to the 1990s, including Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler and Janet Malcolm.

Eighteen-year-old Hannah Conroy has always dreamed of following in her father's footsteps as a healer. But in 19th-century England, the medical profession is closed to women. She sees midwifery as a back door into that world, but her fledgling career is crushed by personal tragedy. Seeking to escape a possible murder conviction in England, Hannah's world is turned upside down as she boards a boat bound for Melbourne.

Newbie PI Lora Weaver is squirming in her seat trying to avoid temptation. She's on a stakeout in front of Petit-Four, the cutest pastry shop ever, watching as pastries parade by in the window on what's otherwise the most boring stakeout ever. She's hungry. She's cramped. And she can barely keep her eyes open. She also can't leave. C&C, the PI agency Lora works for has been hired to help in a dodgy divorce case, and it's Lora's job to find out what else their client's soon-to-be ex, Sloan Potts, has been playing at hiding besides his salami.

This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think. I'm going to tell you a story, and this time, it will be the truth. Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed at school by golden girl Nikki Drummond and bored at home. But in their...