The Typist by Caroline Taylor

Persevere!  My initial reaction to this book was it was slowwwww!  However I persevered and I ended up really enjoying it.   A young woman from the mid-west goes to Washington D.C. to work in the sixties.   She is both naïve and experienced.   A criminal father used her as a foil as a child.  A bible-thumping mother engendered guilt as her daily entrée.   Judah ends up working at an insurance agency that appears to harbor a secret.

Judah will drive you crazy with her naïveté and yet she has a strength of character that is admirable.  It is important to remember the time in which the story is set.   Although the emotions Judah express often seem to be a decade earlier than the sixties. 

The story plods but comes together and ends satisfyingly.

I recommend the book.

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