But the promise of the American Dream holds a deep hope for those who work hard, trust God, and never give up Book Details Personal and financial setbacks test old relationships and new romances while threatening to keep the business from ever selling a single dress.
Joining the project is Annie's new husband, Sean Culver, her best friend at Butterick, Maude Nascato, and a mother figure, Edna Holmquist.Īnnie and her colleagues give up their careers, risking everything to follow a shared passion: clothes that are both fashionable and functional for modern, busy women in 1912. When a dapper, young George Washington comes into her life, Martha Custis is a young widow with two young children. The American Dream thrives in 1912 New York CityĪnnie Wood, the housemaid-turned-pattern designer in The Pattern Artist, jumps at the chance to design her own clothing line when a wealthy New York couple offers to finance her endeavor. Known for moving first-person novels of Nannerl Mozart, Jane Austen, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nancy Moser now brings to life the loves and trials of the first First Lady of the United States. The historical details-such as Lafayette's joining the family as “another son”-are accurate enough, but Moser never fully plunges readers into an earlier world."The slogan of the store-"unruffled, unveiled, unstoppable women"-is a perfect descriptor for the tenacious religious feminists who here pursue the American Dream. Unfortunately, the novel lacks a real plot there is no central conflict that demands resolution.
After the Revolution ends, Moser briefly describes George's election as president, and then fast-forwards 11 years to his death. The novel focuses on the Washingtons' early marriage and experiences during the war. The description of the death of her daughter, Patsy, is especially moving. Moser, who cut her literary teeth on Christian fiction, depicts religious faith throughout: we see Martha attending church, offering up the occasional prayer, devotedly loving her husband and caring for her children.
When the Revolution commences, Martha is forced to flee Mount Vernon, and Loyalist newspapers claim that she has abandoned the Patriot cause. Moser opens with the death of Martha's first husband and her subsequent marriage to George. ) turns to Martha Custis Washington in an uncharacteristically slow, unimaginative tale. Nancy Moser, Christy Award-winning author of Mozarts Sister, distills the life of Martha Washington into a revealing first-person historical novel. Popular historical novelist Moser ( Mozart's Sister Nancy Moser, Christy Award-winning author of Mozart’s Sister, distills the life of Martha Washington into a revealing first-person historical novel.
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