Out of Eden: A Novel

by Kate Lehrer

"What's best about 'Out of Eden' is its brave, complicated ideas about women and the West … Kate Lehrer, who previous novel, 'When They Took Away the Man in the Moon,' also dealt with the conflicting desires of a strong woman, stakes out fascinating turf here … This is terrific material for full-bodied storytelling … One can almost imagine a clever director turning this saga of Victorian gentlewomen into a cowgirls' Thelma and Louise." -- The Washington Post

Genres: Fiction

342 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 1996

Reviews

[Mary Robin]

Didn’t finish it. Couldn’t keep me interested long enough to continue.

[Vikki]

This is a fiction story that is based on the life of two real women. In the story two young independent women from France decide to settle in western Kansas in about the 1850s. It was a very good story. It is realistic as to what Kansas was like at that time. For example she talked about hearing the wind could drive a person crazy, depression was a big thing, and it was just plain hard times. I really enjoyed this book.

[Sharon Wilbur]

This book has been in our library since 2006. It has been taken out exactly 3 times. Once in 2006, once in 2010 and once in 2015. I understand why.

It is choppy, it doesn't flow, it's horribly written. It's like a bad romance novel with no romance. Skip it.

[Tom Tallmadge]

Different twist on the great western expansion.Liked the characters, and the story