Twenty-year-old Honora Beecher, married to Sexton in 1929 after a three-month courtship, comes to realize that her husband is not trustworthy and finds herself increasingly drawn to McDermott, a principled loom fixer at a nearby mill where Sexton has been forced to take employment after losing his job due to the stock market crash.
year: 2003
call number/section: 1000
subjects: stock market crash, 1929, fiction, married people, labor movement, great depression, 1929-1939, new hampshire, fiction