When Aviva Grossman's affair with a popular congressman becomes public knowledge, the congressional intern finds herself taking the fall. Publicly humilated, she moves to a remote town and changes her name. But her past comes back to haunt her when years later she is convinced to run for public office. And now she must reconcile who she was with who she is now while navigating the gender restrictions imposed on her.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: interns (legislation), fiction, mistresses, social aspects, mother-daughter relationship, self-realization