Awakening — Dana Fuller Ross

1900. It is the dawn of a new age, the beginning of the American Century. For Sally Holt, age sixteen...for her closest confidant and friend, India Blackstone, age twenty...and for all whose lives they will touch over the next four decades, it is the dawn of an age of discovery and danger, anguish and ecstasy. Intelligent, beautiful, schooled in all the social graces, Sally will realize a dream, leaving her family behind to make her debut in New York City--only to see the dream shattered in the tumult of history and of her own desires. India, in the forefront of Manhattan's political and artistic avant-garde, will rise to a pinnacle of fame she never sought...and descend to a depth of tragedy she will never forget. Amid husbands and lovers, seduction and scandal, these two courageous women will bear witness to a great war of blood and iron, an age of jazz and bathtub gin, a Wall Street crash and deadly Depression, and finally the rumblings of a second World War, which will overshadow all that came before.