39-year-old Ara Delfinos has been successful at everything but love. When a professional matchmaker tells her accomplished female friend that "No man wants an A Girl," the Oxford grad wonders if it's true. Soon after, Ara is shocked to discover that she is a LightSeer and can talk to her dead feminist heroines. Guided by the long-dead first female Cambridge graduate, Louisa Lumsden, Ara sets out to meet her heroines across history and ask if they believe liberated love is possible. Journeying from Seattle to England, Paris, and NYC, Ara talks with illustrious women from Queen Elizabeth I to Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel, Maya Angelou, and even some female saints. These "dead" women share their thoughts on love and marriage, but the proto-feminists have far more to say about witches, the Bible, demons, dating, Hell, and death. Ara must face the ugly truths of colonialism, racism, and oppression that plague the world today, and the Dead Feminists help her see that she must also feel her grief at losing her 27-year-old best friend to cancer before she can ever fully embrace life-or possibly find liberated love.
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