Eighteenth and Western: A Novel

Jean Dickey dreams of doing something important for women’s rights. She failed in 1970, but now she’s in her seventies and has a second chance. Her granddaughter, Dani, arrives to help her start a civil rights center on Chicago’s Lower West Side. But when a cold-case crime on the center’s deteriorating property is connected to Jean, and Jean talks about visits from her grandmother’s ghost, Dani faces a difficult decision about Jean’s future.