Woman At Otawi Crossing

1981 Ohio University Press trade paperback, reprint. Frank Waters (Book of the Hopi). A woman, Helen Chalmers, marries a wealthy college classmate in the early 1900s, and settles in Los Angeles, California. They have a daughter, but her husband spent most of his time at the office of the family investment business, or out drinking. Helen is confined to living in the mansion of her domineering in-laws, until she is able to stand it no longer and walks away, leaving her daughter and leaving it to her husband to file for divorce. - Librarythings.com