Amend, Allison

Drawing on the memoir of Frances Conway, this fascinating and well-written fictionalized account follows the daughter of Jewish immigrants as she runs away as a teenager from Minnesota to Chicago and then on to Nebraska and San Francisco where she eventually lands a secretarial job working for Navy intelligence...

Although the story line is provocative and intriguing, and some fine characterization develops eventually, this book will appeal more to readers in the know regarding the art world than to a more general audience.