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The gilded years, a novel, Karin Tanabe

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fiction

The gilded years

926313055

Karin Tanabe

a novel

Anita Hemmings always longed to attend Vassar College, the country<U+0019>s most exclusive school for women. Now, a bright, beautiful senior in the class of 1897, she is hiding a secret: with her olive complexion and dark hair, this daughter of a janitor and descendant of slaves has successfully passed as white. When Anita finds herself rooming with Louise "Lottie" Taylor, the scion of one of New York<U+0019>s most prominent families, the two become fast friends. Anita learns what it's like to be treated as a wealthy, educated white woman, and even finds herself in a heady romance with a moneyed Harvard student. But when Lottie becomes infatuated with Anita's brother, Frederick, whose skin is almost as light as his sister<U+0019>s, the situation becomes perilous