I read this book for a book club selection. The protagonist is Desdemona 'Dez' Hart Spaulding, an artist who has studied in Paris in the 1920s, and the setting is the Depression-era years between the wars in a Massachusetts town, Cascade, which may become one of the four towns intentionally floo...
It wouldn’t be until the Life story came out four years later, after the success of The Black Veil, when her life would have already changed so vastly, that she would really recognize the extent of the isolation Jacob must have felt that night a town pointed its collective finger at him. In the b...