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A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinner that traverses the intimate landscape of one womans life, from the 1880s to World War II.

Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. Hes the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margarets mother calls the match "a piece of luck."