Daughters of the Revolution

In 1968 a clerical mistake threatens the prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the small New England town of Cape Wilde. After a century of all-male old-boy educationthe schoolaccidentally admits its first female student: Carole Faust a brilliant outspoken fifteen-year-old black girl whose arrival will have both an immediate and long-term effect on the prep school and everyone in its orbit. Theres the schools philandering headmaster Goddard God Byrd who had promised co-education over his dead body and who finds his syllabi full of dead white males and patriarchal tradition constantly challenged; theres EV the daughter of Gods widowed mistress who watches Caroles actions as she grows older with wide eyes and admiration; and finally theres Carole herself who bears the singular challenge of being the First Girl in a world thats not quite ready to embrace her.