The House on Perry Street

Download or read book The House on Perry Street written by Agnes Bushell and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five generations, Tallis women have lived in the big brownstone on Perry Street in Greenwich Village: Ada, adventurous and ambitious, who inherited the house in 1878; her daughter, Julia, suffragist, union organizer, and political agitator; Julia's daughter, Lydia, the reigning matriarch; Lydia's daughter, Nora, '60's peace activist and mother of Marina, the narrator of this matriarchal epic filled with an array of eccentric characters from a writer who has been charting America's political landscape since the appearance of her first novel, Local Deities in 1990.