"Shreve is a master storyteller....[An] intricate portrait of the American woman and her creative centrality inside and outside the home." THE MIAMI HERALD They are four generations of women—Anna, Amanda, Sara, and Eleanor—and their remarkable story spans a hundred years, beginning when a willful beauty arrives in America in 1890, and goes on to love, passion, and scandal. She brings into the world a talented daughter whose photographs capture the soul of the twentieth century, and in turn she has a daughter, who in then has a daughter of her own—all of whom refuse to bow to the conventions of their times. Like their mothers before them, they will charter vast new territory as daughters of the new world.