The astonishing and imaginative debut novel about Helen Keller and the man she loved
What comes to mind when you think of Helen Keller? Is it the deaf-mute wild child at the water pump outside her Tuscumbia, Alabama, home portrayed in "The Miracle Worker" or the adult activist for the rights of the disabled and women, the socialist who vehemently opposed war? Rosie Sultan s debut novel imagines an intimate part of Keller s life she rarely spoke or wrote about: her one and only love affair.
Peter Fagan, a reporter from Boston, steps in as her secretary when her companion Annie Sullivan...