Astor Place Vintage

by Stephanie Lehmann

Touchstone

Literature and Fiction: Women's Fiction, Literature and Fiction

June 11, 2013

ISBN-13: 9781451682052

Available in: Paperback

Astor Place Vintage
by Stephanie Lehmann

Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks she'son just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a journal sewn into a fur muff, Amanda gets much more than she anticipated. The pages of the journal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young woman who had moved to Manhattan in 1907. Olive was set on pursuing a career as a department store buyer in an era when Victorian ideas, limiting a woman's sphere to marriage and motherhood, were only beginning to give way to modern ways of thinking. As Amanda reads the journal, her life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds she's connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined.



Stephanie Lehmann's Bio

Stephanie Lehmann is the author of Thoughts While Having Sex and Are You in the Mood? A playwright and contributor to Salon.com, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.