Motivated by a desire for meaningful work and a life of adventure, women college graduates in North America and Western Europe became student secretaries for the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). In their role as student secretaries, women worked to create student movements where none had existed, to support fledgling movements, and to embed themselves in movements that already existed. Women thus played an important role in the first decades of the WSCF, when the organization was...
While caring for her terminally-ill Aunt Louise, Nori McFarlane stumbles on a mystery related to her aunt's medical fellowship at a tuberculosis sanitorium in the Adirondacks in the 1950s. The discovery of her aunt's journal and conversations they have together lead Nori further into the mystery. Will Nori have the courage to follow that trail, wherever it might lead, even if it results in a radical resorting of her understanding of the past?