Lone Women Summary by Chapter | Victor LaValle
Introduction
This Lone Women Summary by Chapter walks you through each chapter in order, preserving the novel’s three-part structure and all major plot developments.
Book Structure Overview
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Total Chapters | 68 Chapters |
| Parts | 3 Parts (Part One: 1-30; Part Two: 31-47; Part Three: 48-68) |
| Prologue / Epilogue | None |
| Narrative Flow | Linear, following Adelaide Henry from California to Montana across one year |
Lone Women Summary Chapter by Chapter
⚠️ Spoiler Warning: This section contains detailed, chapter-by-chapter plot summaries covering all major events from beginning to end.
Part One
Chapter 1
Adelaide Henry begins her journey by dousing her family’s California farmhouse in gasoline and setting it ablaze. She listens to the liquid splash on the stairs as she prepares to burn everything she has ever known.
Upstairs, the bodies of her parents, Glenville and Eleanor, lie under bloody sheets in their marriage bed.
Despite her guilt, Adelaide finds she cannot pour the fuel over her mother’s open eyes.
She flees the room as the fire catches and meets a wagon man named Mr. Cole, who complains about the impossible weight of her steamer trunk. As they ride away, the farmhouse becomes a pyre for her old life.
Chapter 2
During the ride to the port, Mr. Cole gossips about the Henrys being “queer folk” who kept to themselves and never spoke in church. Adelaide reflects on her scarred hands, though she has no memory of how the wounds were inflicted during the night her parents died.
She realizes her family’s reputation for isolation was a survival tactic that she is now continuing. As they enter San Pedro, the sight of a modern city and electricity makes her feel small but hopeful for an escape. She reaches back to touch her trunk, fearing it might flee the wagon.
Chapter 3
Adelaide buys a ticket to Seattle on the S.S. Queen but is nearly left behind due to Mr. Cole’s earlier navigation error. When they reach the pier, Mr. Cole spitefully dumps her trunk onto the ground, nearly breaking the lock.
She is forced to drag the heavy trunk twenty yards to the ship’s superintendent alone while men watch without offering help. Once aboard, a steward informs her the ship is oversold and she must stay on deck. She finds a deck chair and pulls out a copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for comfort.
Chapter 4
While on the ship, Adelaide recalls her mother’s frequent mantra that “a woman is a mule,” meant to train her in endurance and acceptance. She hears her mother’s voice in the wind, reminding her of the blood and gasoline in the farmhouse.
The memories of her mother’s torn throat and her father’s shrouded head continue to haunt her. Feeling isolated and forsaken, she descends into the dark cargo hold to find her trunk. She sits in the dark with the trunk, pressing her face against it as if in prayer.
Chapter 5
Adelaide is inspired by a railway bulletin testimonial from Mattie T. Cramer about the success of “lone women” homesteading in Montana. In Seattle, she meets a real estate agent who sells her an abandoned claim near a small town called Big Sandy.
The claim includes a pre-built shack and a well, costing her a significant portion of her remaining funds. She boards a train heading east, feeling a mix of grief and anticipation for what the bulletin called “unlimited opportunities.”
Chapter 6
Fred Harnden, an eager reporter for the local Big Sandy newspaper, meets the arriving trains to gather social news. He encounters Jerrine Reed, the wealthiest woman in town, who is awaiting a massive theater organ for the opera house.
Fred logs the arrivals and business of various residents for the next day’s paper. He briefly speaks to a tall Black woman asking for a wagon driver. Assuming she is a domestic worker, he dismisses her and doesn’t even ask for her name.
Chapter 7
Adelaide surveys Big Sandy, which feels tiny beneath the massive Montana sky. She encounters Jerrine Reed, who kindly welcomes her and directs her toward an honest wagon driver named Mr. Olsen.
She watches as Mrs. Reed oversees the delivery of a spectacular Wurlitzer theater organ. Adelaide finds Mr. Olsen and hires him to haul her and her trunk to her claim. She is surprised by Mr. Olsen’s concern when she admits the trunk is her only possession.
Chapter 8
Adelaide rides in Mr. Olsen’s wagon alongside the Mudge family, a mother and four young boys who all wear handkerchiefs over their eyes. She soon realizes the boys are blind and feels a deep sense of sympathy for their struggle to homestead.
Conflict arises when a jolt in the road causes Mrs. Mudge to accidentally strike Adelaide’s trunk. Adelaide reacts with aggressive protectiveness, shouting at the woman to stay back. The four blind boys immediately rise in a coordinated, lethal defensive stance, revealing they are far from helpless.
Chapter 9
The wagon becomes stuck in a muddy coulee, and Mr. Olsen declares the horses cannot pull the weight. He instructs the passengers to climb the rise on foot while he unloads the wagon to get the team through.
The wind is punishingly cold, and the group huddles together as night falls. Mr. Olsen admits he is confused because his team has successfully hauled much heavier loads in the past. Adelaide remains silent, knowing exactly why the trunk is weighing the horses down.
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Chapter 10
The group seeks shelter in a derelict, leaning hotel in a vanished town. Inside, the building is empty and haunting, with only the sound of the wind through the cracks. Mrs. Mudge refuses to let Adelaide share a room with her and her sons, citing propriety.
The youngest Mudge boy, Joab, tells a chilling story of pushing a child into a well for teasing him. Adelaide is left to find an empty room in the fathomless dark, feeling eyes on her in the shadows.
Chapter 11
Adelaide lies on the floor of a cold room, using her flannel blanket for warmth while listening to the howls of coyotes. She comforts herself by remembering her father’s voice reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
She reflects on her family’s life in California, where they were known as “queer folk” who didn’t fit in at church. Adelaide remembers seeing her mother’s thinning hair and realizing she would be shackled to the farm forever unless something changed. The memory ends with the death of her parents and her flight from the farm.
Chapter 12
At dawn, Adelaide finds the wagon and her trunk outside the hotel, but the Mudges are nowhere to be seen. She is horrified to discover that the brass padlock on her trunk has been tampered with and is unlocked.
Mr. Olsen tells her a story about a man hanged for theft on the hotel porch, subtly accusing her of carrying something stolen. He claims the lock must have been “knocked open” by the rough trip, but Adelaide remains suspicious. He informs her that the Mudges left in the middle of the night on a different wagon.
Chapter 13
Adelaide reaches her twelve-by-twelve cabin, which is little more than a shack covered in black tar paper. She and Mr. Olsen struggle to push the trunk inside, and she notices his purple, exhausted eyes.
Before he leaves, she tells him she will buy the Mudges’ abandoned supplies if they don’t turn up at their claim. Left alone, she tests the well and finds the water is alkaline and undrinkable. She sits on her trunk in the empty cabin and wonders if she can truly survive this isolation.
Chapter 14
Adelaide spends her first days clearing out a root cellar filled with spoiled preserves left by the previous owner. Mr. Olsen returns after three days, confirming the Mudges disappeared, and sells Adelaide their belongings for five dollars.
She sets up her home with the Mudges’ rocker, bed, and wallpaper, finally hanging the trunk key around her neck. She settles into a routine of reading her books aloud to drown out the wind and the coyote calls. To her surprise, she begins to feel as though she has truly started her life over.
Chapter 15
By October, the first snow falls, and Adelaide learns to harvest it for water. She is interrupted by the arrival of Grace Price and her young son, Sam, who have come to meet their new neighbor.
Grace is judgmental and sharp-tongued, but Adelaide recognizes her own loneliness and accepts the woman’s friendship. Sam is extremely curious about Adelaide’s large trunk and claims he can hear it making a sound other than the wind. Grace offers Adelaide wood and potatoes, realizing she might actually like her new neighbor.
Chapter 16
Two cowboys, Matthew and Finn Kirby, visit Adelaide’s cabin on a Sunday. They are threshers who heard about the new “lone woman” on the land and have come to offer a ride. Adelaide shares stories of her life in California but keeps her family’s final days a mystery.
She learns that news of her arrival has spread as far as Helena and Butte because men gossip so much. Despite the company, she remains vigilant and misses the Black community she left behind.
Chapter 17
In late October, Adelaide attends a community dance at a large ranch with Grace, Sam, and the Kirbys. The atmosphere is festive with music and local homebrew, though Adelaide stays cautious as the only Black person there.
She is repeatedly mistaken for Bertie Brown, a famous local Black homebrewer. To her shock, she encounters a woman named Rose Morrison who looks exactly like Mrs. Mudge. When Adelaide asks after her boys, the woman coldly claims she is a childless widow.
Chapter 18
Adelaide is forced to sleep in a chair on the ground floor of the ranch house after the dance. She remains agitated, wondering why the Mudge woman’s lie bothers her so much.
In the morning, Matthew Kirby helps her up and she realizes she has developed a deep affection for him. However, the morning is marred by the news that four horses have been stolen by four boys during the night. Adelaide is certain the Mudge boys are the culprits.
Chapter 19
Matthew insists on escorting Adelaide home and inspecting her cabin for safety. Adelaide realizes that she wants him to stay, seeking the comfort of human intimacy after years of isolation.
She offers to cook for him, and he enthusiastically agrees to stay for the night. While Matthew secures the horses, Adelaide finds a box of photos the Mudges left behind in her root cellar. She plans to use them to help the sheriff identify the horse thieves.
Chapter 20
Adelaide prepares a dinner of beans and eggs for herself and Matthew. They discuss her farming plans, and Matthew shows respect for her decision to plant sugar beets.
He notices the many small, dimpled scars on her forearms but has the sense not to ask about them. The two find a rare moment of tenderness and passion, letting the Montana wind howl outside unheeded. Adelaide finally feels a sense of peace in her new life.
Chapter 21
Adelaide wakes in the middle of the night to a scene of absolute carnage: Matthew is mutilated and bleeding. The steamer trunk sits open and empty, and the cabin’s furniture has been shredded.
A massive, scaly creature — the Henry family’s curse — is in the corner consuming Matthew. Adelaide leaps onto the creature, which her family called Elizabeth, and uses her unique strength to subdue it.
She manages to yoke the beast and force it back toward the confinement of the trunk.
Chapter 22
Adelaide discovers that Matthew used her key to unlock the trunk while she was asleep. She is not even angry, realizing the land drives everyone to desperation. While she dresses Matthew’s wounds, she finally speaks her family history aloud to his semi-conscious form.
She explains that Elizabeth was born on the same day as her, a “blessing and a curse” that drove the family into a lifetime of secrecy. Adelaide wonders if the curse was ultimately her own fault.
Chapter 23
Matthew recuperates in the cabin for days, muttering in his native Finnish tongue. Adelaide considers killing him to preserve her secret but chooses defiance against her parents’ ways by letting him live.
She moves the trunk back to the root cellar, where the creature lies in a silent hibernation. When Matthew is finally fit to leave, she gives him twenty dollars — nearly all she has — to buy his silence. Their tenderness is gone, and he leaves without a word of affection.
Chapter 24
Adelaide returns to a solitary life, struggling to survive as the true Montana winter arrives. Her supply of coal is exhausted, and the acrid smoke from burning it inside makes her ill.
She visits the root cellar and hears a grunt from the trunk, confirming the creature is still alive and strong. Realizing she cannot survive another night without wood heat, she decides to walk miles to Grace’s claim. She resolves to save herself to ensure no one else accidentally opens the trunk.
Chapter 25
The walk to Grace’s claim is a delirious struggle against a wind that feels like a malevolent force. Adelaide is haunted by a vision of her mother, whose throat is still slashed and who walks on bare feet in the snow.
The ghost of Eleanor Henry accuses Adelaide of wanting her parents dead so she could be free. Adelaide collapses against the side of Grace’s cabin, exhausted and nearly frozen.
Chapter 26
Inside the cabin, Adelaide finds Grace Price lying on the floor, pale and bleeding from a gunshot wound. Grace tells her that the Mudges attacked them and threw Sam into the root cellar.
Adelaide rescues Sam, who is terrified but alive, with his bare feet nearly blue from the cold. Sam reveals that the youngest Mudge boy stole his shoes as a souvenir.
Chapter 27
Adelaide tends to Grace’s hand, which was shot by the twelve-year-old Joab Mudge.
They realize the Mudges have been posing as blind to gain people’s trust before robbing them.
Grace admits she felt “cross” with Adelaide at the dance for being rude to Mrs. Mudge, but now sees she was right. Adelaide stays the night, feeling a deep bond with the wounded mother and son.
Chapter 28
A Black woman named Bertie Brown arrives at the cabin, bringing food and her famous homebrew. She offers Adelaide a rare sense of comfort and community, promising to help her with her hair.
Bertie takes Grace to the hospital while Adelaide stays behind to watch Sam. While Sam practices his penmanship by copying the Book of Obadiah, Adelaide realizes she finds church and its “performances” meaningless.
Chapter 29
Adelaide buys a horse named Obadiah and returns to her claim, only to find her root cellar door torn off its hinges. The trunk is splintered and empty; the creature has broken out.
She finds Elizabeth inside the cabin, hiding under the bed frame and growling like a wild animal. Adelaide holds a knife to her own throat, threatening to kill herself to see if it would kill the demon as well.
Chapter 30
Mrs. Mudge and her son Joab arrive at the cabin, intending to seize Adelaide’s property. They mock her and admit they are the ones who attacked Grace and Sam.
Elizabeth emerges from the cabin and brutally kills Mrs. Mudge, tearing off her arm. The creature then takes flight, expanding leathery wings and hunting down the fleeing Mudge boys in the night.
Adelaide is left standing in the doorway, horrified and wondering if she is finally free.
Part Two
Chapter 31
At the Big Sandy Opera House, Jerrine Reed addresses a crowd, praising the “lone women” who have stayed through the winter. Adelaide attends with Grace and Sam, feeling a new sense of family.
Mrs. Reed reads news about women’s triumphs around the world, including a Russian princess who fought in the war disguised as a man.
Adelaide struggles with her guilt but finds comfort in Sam resting against her. She is spooked when she sees Finn Kirby glaring at her from the orchestra seats.
Chapter 32
At the “Blind Pig,” Bertie Brown and Fiona Wong play cards with Jack Reed while his driver, Joab Mudge, waits outside. Bertie has “proved up” on her land and runs a successful illegal still.
Jack Reed treats the women with a mix of casual disrespect and strange intimacy, enjoying their company in secret. Joab Mudge, now twelve, serves as Reed’s driver, hiding his violent past.
Chapter 33
Joab and his brother Delmus are the only Mudges left after the attack on Adelaide’s cabin. Joab has crafted a story of their family being heroes who died defending them from wolves, which the local paper prints.
While Delmus is traumatized and babbling about demons, Joab focuses on becoming “legitimate” through Jack Reed. Privately, Joab still plans to find the “witch” Adelaide and the beast that killed his mother.
Chapter 34
At the Grill Cafe, Sam confesses to Adelaide that his mother, Grace, killed his father. He tells her that he needed to tell “the best someone I know.”
Adelaide observes Grace’s wounded hand and realizes they both carry heavy secrets of violence. Grace warns Adelaide that Finn Kirby blames her for Matthew’s permanent injuries and silence. Adelaide decides she must stop living in shame and tells Grace she didn’t come to Montana alone.
Chapter 35
A brief perspective from the creature, Elizabeth, who is experiencing the freedom of the plains. She finds that small animals like rabbits are too fast to catch, but horses are easier prey.
She avoids thinking of Adelaide’s name and focuses solely on her mounting hunger. She pounces on horses in the night, feeling the strength of the wind under her wings.
Chapter 36
Delmus Mudge is drunk and guarding the Reeds’ stable when the creature attacks. He falls from the loft, breaking his collarbone, and watches in terror as the beast approaches him.
In his desperation, he begs God for a second chance, promising to tell the truth about his family’s crimes. The creature spares him, but kills or drives off all of Jack Reed’s horses. Joab and Jack Reed find him passed out in the aftermath.
Chapter 37
Adelaide works on her cabin, using old newspapers to insulate the walls against the biting cold. She reflects on the “truth” she told Grace, which Grace struggled to believe because it involved demons.
Bertie and Fiona visit, and Bertie finally styles Adelaide’s hair with professional pressing oil. Adelaide’s hair “glows like a crown,” restoring a sense of her own beauty. She joins the two women on a trip to town.
Chapter 38
In town, Jerrine Reed publicly promotes a new power laundry run by Mrs. Sterling, effectively cutting Fiona out of the local market. She encourages the town to support “one of our own” over outsiders like Bertie and Fiona.
Adelaide watches as her friends ride off with their last sacks of laundry from the hotel. Despite the tension, Adelaide is drawn into the spectacle and enters the new laundry, feeling the pull of wanting to be “let in” by the town.
Chapter 39
Jack Reed takes a “Vigilance Committee” of local men, including Joab, to find the “wolfers” who stole his horses. Joab suggests they look at Rocky Point, a known outlaw hideout.
He chooses to betray the location to prove his loyalty to Reed. As they drive through town, Joab sees Adelaide and vows to fulfill his promise of vengeance against her.
Chapter 40
Bertie and Fiona return to the “Blind Pig” with their final sacks of laundry. They find a delivery of malted barley from a Métis trader named Clement Cardinal.
Fiona is distraught over losing her business to the new laundry. Bertie comforts her with deep intimacy and tenderness, affirming their bond. Bertie resolves to protect Fiona at any cost, even keeping her revolver ready.
Chapter 41
The creature, Elizabeth, dreams of her life in the barn and the chains that once held her. She finds a high cave in the mountains, a place where she can rest in solitude.
She avoids thinking about Adelaide’s name, feeling the weight of being alone. She decides to make this cave her home, far from the reach of human beings.
Chapter 42
Adelaide is haunted by the ghost of her mother as she rides her horse, Obadiah. The spirit of Eleanor Henry mocks her for trying to be “grown” while neglecting her responsibilities.
Eleanor warns that when the demon causes damage, the town will come for Adelaide. Adelaide insists she isn’t scared, but the ghost’s warnings of retribution linger.
Chapter 43
The Vigilance Committee, calling themselves “The Stranglers,” arrives at Rocky Point. They find three old wolfers and prepare to hang them without a trial.
Joab is forced to confront a man who knew his mother, but he shoots the man in a panic. Jack Reed tells Joab that “bullets cost money but hanging is free” and lets him help with the next execution.
Joab officially becomes a “Strangler” as they hang the remaining men.
Chapter 44
Grace and Sam visit Jerrine Reed’s palatial home to ask for school funding. Sam accidentally reveals Adelaide’s secret, claiming she “brought a monster to Montana.”
Mrs. Reed is dismissive but offers Grace support if she agrees to “adjust” Sam’s presentation.
Infuriated by the suggestion that Sam is something to be corrected, Grace slaps Mrs. Reed across the face. She takes Sam and leaves, choosing her child over the town’s approval.
Chapter 45
Elizabeth, the creature, rests in her mountain cave as the sun rises. She has found a place where she can be free of dreams of the barn. She remains in the darkness, waiting for the night to return.
Chapter 46
In November, a massive snowstorm hits Big Sandy, leading to the death of a young boy who froze in the snow. More reports of mysterious deaths and missing horses emerge.
One man claims his horse “flew off,” but the town doctor dismisses it as drunkenness. A sense of doom descends over the territory.
Chapter 47
Adelaide and Fiona ride to an abandoned mining town called Glendale so Fiona can find her father’s grave. They are harassed by five ghostly men in a derelict saloon.
Fiona explains the dehumanizing history of Chinese miners, who were often logged only as “John Chinaman.” They flee the town when the men seem to pursue them through the abandoned charcoal kilns.
On the ride back, Adelaide finally tells Fiona the full truth: she came to Montana with her sister.
Part Three
Chapter 48
Adelaide recounts the day her parents died, revealing they had a final feast before going to the barn to kill Elizabeth. She admits she stayed in her room, hoping they would all kill each other so she could be free.
She reveals that Elizabeth is her twin sister, born scaly and monstrous, whom her father refused to let a midwife kill. In the present, she shares this story with Bertie, Fiona, Grace, and Sam at the Blind Pig. Sam suggests they go find Elizabeth.
Chapter 49
In her cave, Elizabeth smells humans approaching but is surprised when they leave a gift of prairie dogs. She realizes they are offering a sacrifice or a peace offering.
She watches from the darkness as they retreat to a cabin halfway down the mountain.
Chapter 50
Jerrine Reed addresses the town about the “calamity” and “poison” in Big Sandy. She tells a story of the “Snowbird” wolves to justify the community’s fear. She introduces Finn and Matthew Kirby, who share their story of the “demon.” The town prepares for a hunt.
Chapter 51
Joab and Delmus Mudge meet with Jack Reed, who demands to know what really happened at the stable. Delmus, feeling he must “tell it all true” to be saved, admits Joab led Reed to Rocky Point.
In a panic to hide their criminal past, Joab kills his own brother by strangling him in front of Reed. Reed helps Joab cover up the murder, telling him he is officially one of the “Stranglers” now.
Chapter 52
Elizabeth enters the small mountain cabin and meets Carlota and Francisco, who speak to her in an ancient language. They show her a small figure from Tepoztlán and call her a “goddess.” They offer her milk and treat her with reverence rather than fear.
Chapter 53
Adelaide and her friends prepare to find Elizabeth, while Jerrine Reed and the Busy Bees organize the town’s men to hunt the creature. Grace takes Sam home, refusing to let him witness the danger. They are confronted by eight armed women — the Busy Bees — at their own homestead.
Chapter 54
Adelaide reflects on the relief of finally sharing her secret. She realizes that her shame may have been unnecessary all along. She nearly faints from the emotional weight but is supported by Bertie and Fiona as they ride toward the mountains.
Chapter 55
Jerrine Reed locks Sam in an attic and attempts to force him into a dress, calling him “Samantha.” She reveals she had a scaly child of her own that Jack killed, and she believes they did the “right thing.” She introduces Joab as Sam’s new “brother.”
Chapter 56
The women meet Clement Cardinal, who warns them that a posse of six white men is headed toward Adelaide’s cabin. He offers to take Adelaide to Canada, but she refuses, needing to find her sister. Bertie and Fiona choose to stand by Adelaide as they head for the mountain peak.
Chapter 57
Jack Reed’s posse burns Adelaide’s cabin to the ground. They see the creature flying in the distance and realize it is hunting. Matthew Kirby drags Adelaide’s empty trunk from the fire, intending to use it as her coffin.
Chapter 58
Elizabeth snatches Adelaide from her horse and carries her toward the mountain peak. Bertie and Fiona are left behind on the ground and are quickly surrounded by Jack Reed’s posse. The men refuse Bertie’s offer of brew and take the women captive.
Chapter 59
Adelaide wakes at the mountain cabin and is given a hallucinatory tea by Carlota and Francisco. She follows the tracks to Elizabeth’s cave and confronts her sister.
Adelaide apologizes for years of neglect and offers her throat to Elizabeth, accepting whatever fate comes.
Chapter 60
Jerrine Reed prepares to hang Bertie, Fiona, and Grace on the opera house stage as the town watches. She justifies the lynching as a way to “rid the town of poison.” The “Stranglers” prepare nooses for all three women.
Chapter 61
In the attic, Joab and Sam bond over Sam’s newspaper clippings. Joab admits he is crying because the world is so much bigger than he was taught to believe. They find common ground in their grief and their desire for something better.
Chapter 62
Adelaide and Elizabeth arrive at the opera house just as the women are being hanged. Elizabeth slaughters the lynch mob, including the Reeds and the Kirbys, while Adelaide watches. The townspeople are spared as the monster focuses its rage on the leaders.
Chapter 63
Grace, Bertie, and Fiona reunite and rush to the Reeds’ mansion to find Sam. They are covered in the blood of the men who tried to kill them. Grace rescues Sam from the attic after he fires Joab’s pistol through the door in a panic.
Chapter 64
Joab is confronted by the women and demands to see the Reeds, only to learn they are dead. Adelaide shows him the carnage in the opera house and lets him live, telling him Sam believes he deserves a second chance. Elizabeth is seen being touched with tenderness by Bertie and Fiona.
Chapter 65
Elizabeth’s perspective reveals she has finally accepted her name and her freedom. She realizes she saved her sister and the others because she chose to. She is no longer a demon, but simply Elizabeth.
Chapter 66
The women decide to leave Big Sandy but stay in Montana. They find a town abandoned due to past plagues and decide to make it their own sanctuary. They systematically take what they need from the destroyed Big Sandy before burning the rest of the town to the ground.
Chapter 67
Joab Mudge steals furs from Clement Cardinal to cover his brother’s body. He drives the Reeds’ Maxwell to Great Falls, sets it on fire as a funeral pyre for Delmus, and joins the Navy. He goes on to see the world, forever changed by his night with Sam.
Chapter 68
The town of Two Sisters, Montana, grows into a thriving community for women outcasts. Adelaide and Elizabeth lead the populace, and more women arrive each day as if drawn by instinct.
They survive the coming hard times and create a history that the simple stories of men could never capture. The novel ends with the establishment of a successful, secret haven for lone women.
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