![]() ![]() Susie Paul gives us achingly beautiful poems of both imagistic and narrative power and invites us to see the snow and fabric lint storms that attempt to cover over the lives of women facing the hard winters of their geographies, their place in history, and their options for working and living as women. ![]() This is Mary Paul’s story, as well as the story for women in America since European colonization. She longs for a life all her own, for green in white New England winters. Susie Paul’s The Whited Air sings with the historically imagined and heartbreaking life of Mary Paul, a young 19th century textile mill worker who wants more. –Andrew Hudgins, Harper Lee Award winner, author of After the Lost War, Ecstatic in the Poison ![]() In the mill, privation and regulation are tempered by the gratifications of supporting herself in “the whited air.” The Whited Air is a beautifully imagined, deeply thought, thorough, and affecting portrait of a young woman moving away from a hard life on the farm and making a life by herself in the hard world of the textile mills of nineteenth-century Massachusetts. ![]()
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