I received a Mobi.file of this book through a recent giveaway the author had on LibraryThing and the following is my honest opinion.

Faith Common is a young woman who was born before her time, as her behavior in the small New England town of Millbrook, Massachusettes; essentially epitomizes the behavior of many suffragettes who would come on the scene 70 years later and women rights movement which would come decades later. She’s a Helen Reddy type of woman for her day who wanted to be more than a mere subservient housewife being limited to performing domestic like cooking, sewing and raising her family’s children.

Like the women of Reddy’s song, I Am Woman, Faith wanted to be all she could be, and not have her abilities being limited by the society’s norms of her day, including education. Naturally, her sheer outspokenness did not go unnoticed as the many residents of her town did not hold back in speaking their minds regarding her outlandish behavior.

Yet, her frankness and sheer bluntness caused her to become a potent vehicle for possible change in her quaint small town, especially where it concerned hullabaloos regardless the rights of everyone besides the [prominent] male residents, specifically the rights of all slaves and of course women. The vignettes of some of the residents of Faith’s town relates the transformations taking place in her town because of her repeated vocalizations of what she truly believed in.

For giving her readers of poignant, moving historical story that change is possible even though it’s due to a single individual, and that everyone is entitled to be whoever they’d like to be, I’ve given the author, Trudy Krisher, the 5 STARS she’s earned for her endeavor here. ( )