Title: Dealt hands
Description: Midwesterner Marty Hatch moves to Massachusetts in 1970, an intruder into culturally distinct New England. Marty's job as an historian in the political world of public higher education tests her values, extorts her conformity, and prompts confrontation with hostile colleagues.--Publisher.
Subjects: Domestic relations, Fiction, Dysfunctional families, Marriage, Hypocrisy, Truthfulness and falsehood, Universities and colleges, Political aspects, Psychic trauma in children, Psychotherapy, Psychological fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & family, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional families, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, College teachers