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Cascade, August 2012
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Penguin
August 2012
On Sale: August 16, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 0670026026
EAN: 9780670026029
Kindle: B0072NWJIO
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Women's Fiction
An artist in the 1930s finds herself caught between duty
and her unorthodox desires. Cascade, Massachusetts, 1935. Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a
talented young artist who studied in Paris, has sacrificed
her dreams of working in New York City to put a roof over
her newly bankrupt and ailing father's head. Two months
later he has died and Dez is bound by the promises she has
made to her father, her husband, and her town. Stifled by
her marriage to kind but conservative Asa, who is impatient
to start a family, her ambitions are fading. Dez also stands
to lose her father's legacy, the Cascade Shakespeare
Theatre, as Massachusetts decides whether to flood Cascade
to create a new reservoir for Boston. Amid this turmoil arrives Jacob Solomon, a fellow artist and
kindred spirit for whom Dez feels an immediate and strong
attraction. As their relationship reaches a pivotal moment,
a man is found dead and the town points its collective
finger at Jacob, a Jewish outsider. When unexpected acclaim
and a chance to recapture her lost dreams of life in New
York City arise, Dez must make an impossible choice. CASCADE interweaves a town's impending destruction and
America's struggles during the Depression with small-town
anti-Semitism and the bohemian art world of Greenwich Village.
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