Fiction. Women's Studies. The best-selling novel by an authentic radical woman of the twentieth century is now reissued in a format designed for the general reader. Written in 1939, revised and first published in 1978, the novel explores the fate of a farm girl who moves to the "dark city" of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she struggles to survive the death of her lover, killed in a bank robbery, and give birth to her daughter, the hope of a new generation. "Meridel Le Sueur's work stands, urgent and unique, at that bloody crossroads where politics and culture meet"--Paul Lauter. With a new introduction by Linda Ray Pratt.