Three generations of women battle against the tides of history, from segregated 1950s America to the fall of the USSR and the rise of revolutionary Rojava.Rose Janowitz is a pioneer in the 1950s golden age of television, as she navigates the transition from radio to TV soap operas. But beneath the glitz and glamor lies a web of secrets. Roses radical past and her hidden romance with Jonas Cain, the AfricanAmerican leading man who made Guiding Light a hit on radio. How long will Rose be able to hide Jonas Cains identityand their romantic relationshipfrom the public, and from Irna Phillips, the formidable doyenne who invented the soapopera, a woman who makesand breaksprofessional careers on a whim.In the 1980s, Roses daughter Emma Kagan abandons her privileged life in the USSR as the daughter of highprofile American defectors, to return to the country of her parents birth just as Mikhail Gorbachev announces the new openness known as glasnost. In the US, Emma navigates the hypocrisy and inherent contradictions of the political left and the right, as the collapse of the Soviet Union sends her scrambling for survival. Emmas search for a place to fully belong finds her looking for personal freedom in the strangest of placeswith unexpected and often lifethreatening results.In 2012, Libby, Emmas daughter and Roses granddaughter, embarks on a bold journey to Rojava, Syria, joining the Womens Revolution. Her search for utopia pulls Rose and Emma into the fray, where family secrets...

Binding: N/A;318 pages; Publisher: History Through Fiction LLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 589.47 g; Dimensions: N/A

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