Dreamers of the Day
by Mary Doria Russell

Summary

Dreamers of the Day is both a romance and a disturbingly relevant political novel about the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, when Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence and Lady Gertrude Bell invented the modern Middle East. The Washington Post Book World called it marvelous and rewarding, "a stirring story of personal awakening set against the background of a crucial moment in modern history."

What if an ordinary, 38-year-old schoolteacher from Cedar Glen, Ohio, with her own heartaches, a modest pension, a plainspoken manner and an affable dachshund, crossed paths with the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference? As Mary Doria Russell's exuberant and likeable heroine observes the inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and toward a personal awakening.

Mary Doria Russell has been called one of the most versatile writers in contemporary American literature. Her first three novels, The Sparrow, The Children of God, and A Thread of Grace, have won over eight regional, national, and international awards, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination.

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Praise

"This atmospheric entrée into a bygone time and place provides a first-person peek into the international political machinations that forged the contemporary Arab world. A natural for book-club discussions." — Booklist

"A remarkably vivid account of a woman's accidental witness to history as she encounters Churchill and T.E. Lawrence in Cairo, where in 1921 they redrew the map of the Middle East... Russell triumphs on many levels: She crafts a solid interpretation of the event, creates in Agnes an engaging narrator and, in no small sense, offers a fine piece of travel writing as we follow Agnes down the Nile. An inspired fictional study of political folly." — Kirkus Reviews

"Rapturous and relevant... A wonderful story that brings to life a period of history that has remarkable parallels to our own." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Russell has created an instantly likable heroine whose unlikely adventures will keep readers hooked to the end." — Publisher's Weekly

About the Author

Mary holds a Ph.D. in Paleoanthropology from the University of Michigan. She is classically trained in linguistics, socio-cultural anthropology, archaeology and biological anthropology.

Mary is currently at work on her fifth novel, Eight to Five, Against, a murder mystery set in Dodge City in 1878, when the unlikely but enduring friendship between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday began. "It's about greed, bigotry and horseracing," Russell says, "and Doc Holliday is going to break your heart."

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