--this book actually pissed me off. It's set in 1907, and throws in every convenient liberal historical twist possible. Now, I'm a liberal historian, but the confluence of coincidences just didn't ring true. Along with a few other things. The selling point was that it was set around Grace Brown's murder, a murder made famous in Dreiser's book An American Tragedy and the movie A Place in the Sun. The murder was such a minor part of the book that I felt gypped.