A 2023 Minnesota Book Awards Nominee! "Lawrence's warts-and-all dual biography zeroes in on Effie and her mother, Annie Wendell...[and] weaves in a second layer of research to place Effie and Annie in the context of their times." Curt Brown, Star Tribune This engrossing account of the lives of Annie Wendell and Effie Schwartz, a mother and her daughter, reveals how women managed relationships and navigated life from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. Many of the experiences we live through now were commonplace back then, too, and we are able to understand our modern world much better through the telling of their lives. Be it relationship issues, divorce, living in a time of scarcity, or experiencing a pandemic, we are able to look to the lives of two women who lived a century ago to see how such things were navigated in the past. This journey is guided by the author, who embarks on his own journey of discovery while stepping into his family's past. Timeless lessons and surprising discoveries await those who travel to the past and this story contains multitudes.