<p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Whatever is going to happen will happen.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong></p><p>Early spring 1909 and New York City was gasping over the shocking performances of the diva Mary Garden in the opera<em>&nbsp;Salome</em>.&nbsp;Ingrid Winthrop also performed... in the Manhattan Opera Company's chorus... and was exhausted after a lengthy season but it was her turn to remain and help tidy up the costumes.&nbsp;Task completed she walked towards the sound of her waiting grandmother's voice and was surprised to see a man sitting with Louisa Winthrop.&nbsp;Ingrid's life was about to change.</p><p>She was born Ingrid Winthrop and orphaned at age two.</p><p>Although she was raised by her grandmother Louisa Winthrop to be a proper society wife the young woman had other ideas.&nbsp;</p><p><em>A Thousand Fibers</em>&nbsp;is Ingrid's story: her education and musical career; her connection to the opera entrepreneur Oscar Hammerstein; her eventual and surprising marriage; her lifelong friendship with the housekeeper; and the audacious decision Ingrid made which if discovered would be considered&nbsp;<em>disreputable and degrading</em>.</p><p>Late nineteenth century New York city's opera wars the difficulties of European immigrants&nbsp;<em>Steinway Village</em>&nbsp;in Astoria New York the growth of Chicago the patriotism and nationalism of the World Wars and a dozen additional people places and events blend in the real and fictional world of Ingrid Winthrop her family her acquaintances.&nbsp;Add a healthy dash of serendipity and chance and connection and&nbsp;<em>A Thousand Fibers</em>&nbsp;proves to be a captivating absorbing read.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Susan M. Szurek</strong>&nbsp;is not wholly convinced Fate is an actual contrivance except between the covers of this novel.&nbsp;</p>
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