All the while, she continued writing-short stories and essays-for periodicals. Needing steady income following her graduate work, Solomon turned to teaching. Although Solomon says she loved working in radio (and may some day return to it), she was still committed to becoming a novelist, so she used her commuting time to write fiction.Īn M.F.A. The position led to a full-time reporting job and eventually to radio producing, working both in Cambridge and Washington, D.C., on award-winning stories about environmental policy and politics. When her year at home was up, Solomon took an internship with National Public Radio's Living On Earth in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
After college, she moved back home to try her hand at writing, enrolling in workshops at GrubStreet writing center in Boston. Raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Solomon received her B.A.
When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people, she is offered up as a sacrifice to please the King, in the hopes that she will save them all. Vee (Vivian Barr) seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C.īut one night he demands a humiliating favor, and her refusal to obey changes the course of her life-along with the lives of others.Įsther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia, where she and her uncle’s tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls.
Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she’s grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. A bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day.
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