Anna Solomon Books in Order

Sixteen-year-old Minna leaves Odessa for America expecting comfort as a mail-order bride. Instead, she joins an older Orthodox husband and his sons in a South Dakota sod hut, where harsh conditions and attraction to her stepson complicate survival.

In 1917, Beatrice Haven leaves her newborn beneath a pear tree and watches another woman take her. Ten years later, Bea returns to Cape Ann and encounters the Irish Catholic mother raising Lucy Pear, bringing their divided lives together.

The lives of Esther in ancient Persia, political wife Vivian in Watergate-era Washington, and Brooklyn mother Lily in 2016 intertwine. Their struggles with desire, marriage, and male authority reveal changing forms of female power and the limits placed upon it.