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Jennie Fields

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When I was child, bookstores and libraries were sanctuaries, my invitation to adventure, escape, satisfaction. Wanting to be a part of the action, I wrote my first 'novel' when I was six. Years later, my first real book arrived in bookstores.

But it's taken me until my fifth novel to tackle a topic that's always called to me: women in science. My mother was trained as a biochemist at the University of Chicago during World War II, and remained at the University afterwards, researching cures for cancer. But as was typical in that era, when she married, she gave up her career to be a wife. She spent the rest of her life aching for science. As a result, science flowed into her cooking, cleaning, our healthcare. She measured, she weighed, she con
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The Age of Desire Paperback Tour!


 


 


Coming right up and coming to a city near you! If you live nearby these cities, or know people who do, I hope you’ll let them know about my readings.  I’d love to meet all of you!


 


 


 


TUES MAY 28TH – 7:30-8:30 pm


Cleveland, Ohio


Cuyahoga Public Library


Berea Branch,


7 Berea Commons


Berea, Ohio


Reading and Signing


 


WED MAY 29TH -  3:00-4:00 pm


Lenox, MA


The Mount


2 Plunkett Street


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“There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall.”
Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“But passion and pride rarely occupy the same space.”
Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire

“America isn’t the land of the brave. It’s the land of bravado. We’re show-offs. In this country, all we desire is things. America is a place that hoards and accumulates and boasts and compares. Meanwhile too many poor people are suffering.”
Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

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“But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.”
Edith Wharton, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

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