Wendy Voorsanger, Cal Poly grad and author of the award-winning novel, Prospects of a Woman talks with correspondent Tom Wilmer. Voorsanger shares insights about the book, and her work chronicling exceptional women throughout California's history featured on her blog She is California. Among the numerous rave reviews of Prospects of a Woman, Janis Cooke Newman, author of Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln wrote: “I loved this surprisingly feminist story of Gold Rush–era California! Elisabeth Parker is a heroine to fall in love with?plucky, sensuous, courageous, and clear-eyed. It is a rare and unusual pleasure to?finally?have a narrative of the Gold Rush told from a woman’s point of view.”
Prospects of a Woman recently won the 2021 Independent Press Award for Western Fiction.
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