Marge Piercy has written seventeen novels including the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, the national bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women, and the classic Woman on the Edge of Time, as well as He, She and It and Sex Wars; nineteen volumes of poetry including The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010, The Crooked Inheritance, and Made in Detroit; and the critically acclaimed memoir Sleeping with Cats. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern, and the recipient of four honorary doctorates, Piercy is active in antiwar, feminist, and environmental causes.

"This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy's great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make."--Gloria Steinem

"An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling."--Publishers Weekly

"Connie Ramos's world is cuttingly real."--Newsweek

"Absorbing and exciting."--The New York Times Book Review

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Pub date: 1997-06-23

Length: 432 pages