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The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
St. Martin's. Feb. 2015. 288p. ISBN 9781250061874. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9781466867956. F
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Making his fiction debut (originally self-published in 2013), journalist Klaber (Shadow Play) has cleverly constructed a wonderful story of the very real Lucy Ann Lobdell, a headstrong, free-thinking 19th-century woman who was very much ahead of her time. Drawing on the research of New York historian Jack Niflot, the narrative follows Lobdell on her adventures as she struggles to define herself in a man's world and to reinvent her own sexual identity. Klaber divides the book into three sections: Lobdell's stint in Bethany, PA, as a music teacher; her time in the Minnesota wilderness dealing with unbearable cold and living among Native Americans; and her years traveling through various parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
VERDICT Covering the same period as Laird Hunt's Neverhome and Kathy and Becky Hepinstall's Sisters of Shiloh, this novel is similar to both titles in terms of exploring a woman's journey of self-discovery in a time when women had little freedom or rights. This is an important book that will take its rightful place in the annals of quality historical fiction.
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