Eighteenth and Western in Bloomington, MN

Remember me.
Jean Dickey dreams of doing something important for women's rights. She failed in 1970, but now she's in her seventies and has a second chance. Her granddaughter, Dani, arrives to help her start a civil rights center on Chicago's Lower West Side. But when a cold-case crime on the center's deteriorating property is connected to Jean, and Jean talks about visits from
her
grandmother's ghost, Dani faces a difficult decision about Jean's future.
Eighteenth and Western
is
upmarket book club fiction
. It tells the stories of three women, each in a different era-1920, 1970, and present-day-struggling for
rights and fulfillment
. Their situations are dissimilar, but their lives are parallel.
is, at its core, an account of
grandmothers and granddaughters
and the strength, suffering, and resilience passed down through generations.