In this first in a series of four novels featuring the interplay of private lives and public events, Mia Arceneau, bubbly daughter of a vigorously idealistic physician and an outspoken country midwife, grows up in an iconic early-20th century America. Meeting a brainy but impulsive young man from a prominent family sparks in the fanciful mountain girl an infatuation propelling her from the remote Adirondacks to Boston's privileged Beacon Hill. Following...