SUN DRIED by EDNA FERBER (NEW)

1001 STORIES FROM THE GILDED AGE There's a particular kind of sunlight that belongs only to the Gilded Age — a hard, honest light that falls across small towns and big ambitions, revealing people exactly as they are. Few writers understood that light better than Edna Ferber, whose stories captured everyday Americans with a clarity that was both affectionate and unflinching. Ferber had a gift for finding drama in the ordinary: a shopkeeper's pride, a young woman's stubborn hope, the quiet battles fought inside kitchens, parlors, and dusty streets. Her characters weren't the titans of industry who do...