The book is based on an actual trip that took place in 1915, when four women left San Francisco for Washington, D.C. on a desperate and dangerous mission to demand an amendment to the U.S. Constitution enfranchising women.
is based on the true story of an epic cross-country journey that took place in 1915.
The story unfolds through the eyes of Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg, middle-aged lesbians and Swedish immigrants who own the car, do all the driving and fix what goes wrong. The roads are terrible, and the weather is worse. They lose their way in a trackless Nevada desert and get stuck in the mud in Kansas, among many other adventures.
Sara snorted. “That reporter! So smug. He was needling me about what would happen if Congress refused to take action on the amendment. Suddenly I remembered an ancient Greek play,They didn’t, so she went on to tell the story of an Athenian woman, Lysistrata, who vowed to end war by persuading the women of her city to refuse sex with their men.“Yes, in the end she did,” said Sara, “but not before the men paraded their discomfort all over the stage.”“It will be hard to enforce,” said Ingeborg.
“I wish you could have seen the look on that reporter’s face,” said Sara, laughing. “For a moment there I had him. You could see him thinking, if Alice Paul could have us driving across the country on this mission, and campaigning against the Democrats, she just might be capable of organizing a national sex boycott. I could tell he was calculating whether his wife would go along with it, and how much he’d suffer.
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