This realistic second novel by the author of Weeds depicts the struggle for survival of two unmarried women in California's Imperial Valley in the 1920s. In her lifetime, Edith Summers Kelley had one novel published, the recently rediscovered Weeds, firstpublished in 1923. Fifty years later this remarkable novel was republished and was, belatedly, recognized as a "lost masterpiece," "a major work of American...