My Latest GrievanceMy Latest Grievance stars the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the \"Eloise of Dewing College.\" Born and raised in the dormitory of this small women's college and chafing under the care of \"the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization,\" Frederica is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. That all changes with the arrival on campus of a new dorm mother, the glamorous Laura Lee French, the frenetic center

But in a brutal landscape

successful and distant

Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)

stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn

gets a new sled

bubbly new housekeeper

Tantaros argues that decades of social and economic progress haven’t brought women the peace and contentedness they were told they'd gain from their new opportunities

in a place called Half-Village

and impossible not to take to heart

Previously published as Becky

For a time

Cassie begins to understand the desperate measures the human heart is capable of