The Scarlet Daughter

Rachel Rose delivers a vivid, feminist, and deeply satisfying debut that imagines the life of Pearl Prynne, the forgotten and scorned daughter at the center of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, for an outspoken new generation fighting against the expectations of an oppressive society.

Born under the stain of her mother Hester's scarlet letter, Pearl spends her childhood as an outcast, bearing the burden of her mother's shame. When fortuitous widowhood allows the pair to flee, their ocean...