Host Bethany Grabow talks with Jamie Harrison, author of the new book The Widow Nash. A young woman is called in to uncover the missing profits after her dying father returns from a business deal empty-handed. Her father’s business partner, who also happens to be her ex-fiance, is angry and dangerous, leading her to flee a life of certain misery for the unknown landscape of rural Montana under a new identity.
The Widow Nash has been called “adventurous story of escape, identity, and rebirth with dynamic and fascinating characters. It’s an Old Western mixed with a Victorian classic, all with a fierce feminist twist.” Tune in to hear the author’s discoveries about the realities of life for a woman in the early 1900s, the prevalence of syphilis in society, and the meaning behind the earthquakes throughout her tale.
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