In the Field a Novel

by Rachel Pastan

Book Overview

In 1923, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. Painfully rebuffed by a girl she longs for, and in flight from her own confusing sexuality, Kate finds refuge in the calm rationality of biology: its vision of a deeply interconnected world, and the promise that the new field of genetics can explain the way people are. But science, too, turns out to be marred by human weakness. Despite her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195300203X
• ISBN13: 9781953002037
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Delphinium Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"