Visioning, A Novel

A young woman's comfortable world cracks when she saves a desperate stranger and must decide whether to keep believing her own lies. Katie Jones has built a pleasant life in a circle carefully constructed for her, charming friends, a brother in the army, an uncle in Washington. She knows her place. Then she pulls Anne from the river, a woman determined to die, and fabricates a cover story to protect her own fragile reality. But the truth about Anne, and about the life Katie has been sheltered from, begins to unravel everything she thought she knew. What follows is Katie's awakening: a slow, painful recognition of the comfortable deceptions that surround her, and her uncertain quest for meaning beyond them. Glaspell writes with sharp, economical prose and a feminist insight that predates Woolf's more famous experiments. For readers who loved "Night and Day," early modernism, or novels about women breaking free from gilded cages.