The Girl

Back in print, the revised edition of a small-press classic by Meridel Le Sueur, the great activist-writer who died last year at the age of 97. The narrator of this story of Depression-era St. Paul comes to the city from her home on a small farm, falls in love with a young tough, watches him die in a foiled bank robbery, and survives in a commune of unemployed women to give birth to a girl child who embodies the hope of the future.