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THE OTHER TYPIST
Notes on a Scandal meets Rules of Civility and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as a female typist at a New York police station in the Roaring Twenties becomes obsessed with the new woman in the typing pool.
In 1922 Rose Baker is a typist in the New York City Police Department on the Lower East Side. Confessions are her job. The criminals admit to their crimes, and like a high priestess, Rose records their every word. Often she is the only woman present, and while she may hear about shootings, knifings, and crimes of passion, as soon as she leaves the interrogation room she is once again the weaker sex, best suited for making coffee and staying quiet. But it’s the beginning of a new era for women, and 1920’s New York is a confusing time and place for Rose. Gone are the Victorian standards of what is acceptable. Now women bob their hair short like men, smoke cigarettes in public, and drink heavily in speakeasies. But prudish Rose is stuck in the fading light of yesteryear, searching for the nurturing companionship that eluded her childhood and clinging to the Victorian ideal of sisterhood. Enter Odalie, a dazzling and mysterious new addition to the typing pool. Despite Rose’s best intentions, she falls under Odalie’s spell. As the two women navigate between the sparkling underworld of speakeasies by night and their work at the station by day, Rose is drawn fully into Odalie's high-stakes world—and her fascination with Odalie turns into an obsession from which she may never recover. Suzanne Rindell is currently in the dissertation phase of the Ph.D. program in English literature at Rice University. Her concentration is in twentieth-century American modernism, and her research provided the original impetus for this novel. She has published short fiction and poetry in Conjunctions, Nimrod, StorySouth, Crab Orchard Review, and Cream City Review. She formerly worked at the Emma Sweeney Agency.
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