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All That I'm Asking
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781578692316
Publisher: Rootstock Publishing
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
It's the summer of 1968 when Alice Kaplan, a twenty-year-old college student, is assaulted by her chauvinistic boss during a dizzying date on a Ferris wheel. She fights him off and runs home only to find her father has suddenly died of a heart attack. Unable to continue her undergraduate education at Cornell, she is catapulted into the working world where opportunities for a young woman are scarce. Struggling against the sexism of the era, a grief-stricken and naive Alice-who longs to be a writer-stumbles into the tumultuous life of a countercultural newspaper reporter in New York City.
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, second-wave feminism, and the gay rights movement, All That I'm Asking is a fast-paced novel where one woman's resilience and tenacity leads to liberation.
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