Title: Silhouette of a sparrow
Description: During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
Subjects: Lesbians, Ornithology, Self-actualization (Psychology), History, Feminism, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction, Children's fiction, Sparrows, fiction, Minnesota, fiction
Places: Excelsior (Minn.)
Time periods: 20th century