Title: City of promise
Description: In the years following the Civil War, as Manhattan experiences a surge in prosperity, Joshua Turner aspires to become a real-estate titan while Mollie Brannigan, raised by her aunt in a bordello, sees her life change after a chance encounter with Joshua in Macy's.
Subjects: Fiction, History, City and town life, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 1865-1898