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One City. One Movement. A World of Stories.Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915. It's the day when tens of thousands of women marched up Fifth Avenue, demanding the right to vote in New York City. Thirteen of today's bestselling authors have taken this moment as inspiration to raise the voices of history and breathe fresh life into their struggles and triumphs.
The characters depicted here, some well-known, others unfamiliar, each inspire and reinvigorate the power of democracy. We follow a young woman who is swept up in the protests when all she expected was to come sell her apples in the city. We see Alva Vanderbilt as her white-gloved sensibility is transformed over the course of the single fateful day. Ida B. Wells battles for racial justice in the women's suffrage movement so that every woman's voice can be heard. Each story stands on its own, but together
Stories From Suffragette City becomes a symphony, painting a portrait of a country looking for a fight and ever restless for progress and equality.
With an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories from:
Lisa Wingate
M.J. Rose
Steve Berry
Paula McLain
Katherine J. Chen
Christina Baker Kline
Jamie Ford
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Megan Chance
Alyson Richman
Chris Bohjalian
and Fiona Davis
List of contents
Introduction
Kristin Hannah
Apple Season
Lisa Wingate
A First Step
M. J. Rose
Deeds Not Words
Steve Berry
Thylacine
Paula McLain
Siobhán
Katherine J. Chen
The Runaway
Christina Baker Kline
Boundless, We Ride
Jamie Ford
American Womanhood
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
We Shall Take Our Lives into Our Own Keeping
Megan Chance
A Woman in Movement
Alyson Richman
Just Politics
Chris Bohjalian
The Last Mile
Fiona Davis
A Note from the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the author
Edited by M. J. Rose and Fiona Davis; introduction by Kristin Hannah
Summary
A collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million women marched for the right to vote in New York City with an introduction by Kristin Hannah.
