"A novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl"-- 1917. Beatrice Haven-- Jewish, unwed-- sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. Ten years later Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea's hopes for her...

A collection of short stories, essays, and poems, culled from small presses and literary journals.