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Maud Martha (Faber Editions) Publisher / Across the River Press understandMaud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the scraps of baffled hate a