Concerning Belinda

Belinda has dreamed of New York for years. Now she is there, perched on her trunk in a room so small that bringing it in has cost her the only chair—and somehow, she begins to laugh.

At the Misses Ryder’s Select School, two grand brownstones shelter young women sorted as carefully as the school’s lessons. Belinda, a capable teacher from Indiana, has come to teach English for a meagre salary, trading a comfortable home for a cramped room and a glimpse of the wider world she has long wanted. The school’s careful social arrangements, its ambitious pupils, and its formidable principals are a far cry from her old classroom back home. Homesickness may make her eyes shine, but her humor and determination are harder to dislodge. Can Belinda make a life for herself in New York without losing her way in its labyrinth of lessons and social rules?

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