Diana took up an appointment at a University in Versailles to find out the truth about her father. Set in Northern Montana the landscape is icy and bleak at times and fellow colleagues in the university are antagonistic, misogynists mainly, racist and basically unpleasant.
Diana has to learn how to balance her teaching career, give of her best to her students, handle her superiors who seem determined to either get her into bed and failing that get her sacked and also find her father. Finding her father was very fast track. The man was in plain sight, he knew her the moment he saw her and things seemed good. Handling a relationship with someone who was of mixed race, and in a town where strong feelings about race existed was a harder task.
Like now in America, the 1970s seem not very different where strong feelings survive re mixing between two races.
Informative read.
Sent to me by Netgalley for an unbiased review, courtesy of University of Nebraska Press.
This sounds like an interesting read. And yes, relevant even today.
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