The night journal / Elizabeth Crook.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Crook, Elizabeth, 1959-

Contributor:

• Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Young women--Fiction.
• Diaries--Authorship--Fiction.
• Women pioneers--Fiction.
• Waitresses--Fiction.
• New Mexico--Fiction.
• Diaries--Authorship.
• Waitresses.
• Women pioneers.
• Young women.
• New Mexico.

Genre:

• Domestic fiction.
• Fiction.
• Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

454 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2007.

Summary:

Meg Mabry has spent her life with her back turned to her legendary family legacy. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass composed starkly revealing diaries of her life on the southwestern frontier, first as a Harvey Girl at the glamorous Montezuma Resort in New Mexico and later as the wife of brilliant, and often-absent, railway engineer Eliott Bass. A generation later, Hannah's daughter, Claudia Bass, renowned historian known to all as Bassie, staked her academic career and reputation on these vibrant accounts, editing and publishing them to great acclaim. Thanks to the journals and to the industry Bassie created around them, Hannah would forever be one of the most romantic and famous figures of southwestern history. Meg, however - Bassie's granddaughter - finds the family lore oppressive. When an excavation on the old Bass family property beckons a now-elderly and viper-tongued Bassie back to the fabled land of her childhood, Meg only grudgingly consents to accompany her. Determined not to live under the shadow of her ancestry, Meg has never even read the journals. But when an unexpected discovery casts doubt on the history recorded in their pages and harbored in Bassie's memories, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great grandmother's story and ventures even deeper into Hannah's life to unlock the mystery at the journal's core.--Publisher description.

Notes:

• Originally published in USA by Viking/Penguin, 2006.
• Willa Literary Award for historical fiction, 2007.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

• 9780143038573
• 0143038575

OCLC:

85534989