Tasting the Apple

Philadelphia, 1926. Six years into Prohibition, and the whole city has learned to look away.Maggie Barnes has stopped being a woman that things happen to. She's enrolled in night classes at Drexel, placed an advertisement for bookkeeping services, and walked the shops along Marshall Street asking for their business. A grocer. A milliner. A shoe store. It isn't much, but it's hers.It has to be. The...