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288 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2012
...and there was not one person she knew, including myself, who had not attempted to shape her wild being into a more biddable form. She was like a thorn to which misfortune is bent into an espalier against a wall and which cannot but betray its spiky and unruly nature, no matter how sternly its growth is pruned and directed...Lina's only real crime was to be born a woman, with powers and instincts that were thought to be proper to belong only to a man.
I had always felt for Lina the compassion and love of a sister; now I felt the loyalty and indignation of our common sex.