Yesterday Until Tomorrow

Tis A Small Canvas This Boston Muses Stewart Jameson A Scottish Portrait Painter Who Having Fled His Debtors In Edinburgh Has Washed Up On America'S Far Shores. Eager To Begin Anew In This New World He Advertises For An Apprentice But The Lad Who Comes Knocking Is No Lad At All. Fanny Easton Is A Lady In Disguise A Young Fallen Woman From Boston'S Most Prominent Family. I Must Make This Jameson See My Artist'S Touch But Not My Woman'S Form Fanny Writes In A Letter To Her Best Friend. I Would Turn My Talent Into Capital And That Capital Into Liberty. Liberty Is What Everyone'S Seeking In Boisterous Rebellious Boston On The Eve Of The American Revolution. But Everyone Suffers From A Kind Of Blind Spot Too. Jameson Distracted By His Haunted Past Can'T See That Fanny Is A Woman; Fanny Consumed With Her Own Masquerade Can'T Tell That Jameson Is Falling In Love With Her. The City'S Sons Of Liberty Can'T Quite See Their Way Clear Either. Ably Do They See The Shackles Parliament Fastens About Them Jameson Writes But To The Fetters They Clasp Upon Their Own Slaves They Are Strangely Blind. Written With Wit And Exuberance By Longtime Friends And Accomplished Historians Jane Kamensky And Jill Lepore Blindspot Weaves Together Invention With Actual Historical Documents In An Affectionate Send-Up Of The Best Of Eighteenth-Century Fiction From Epistolary Novels Like Richardson'S Clarissa To Sterne'S Picaresque Tristram Shandy Prodigiously Learned Beautifully Crafted And Lush With The Bawdy Romping Sensibility Of The Age Blindspot Celebrates The Art Of The Enlightenment And The Passion Of The American Revolution By Telling Stories We Know Andthose We Don'T Stories Of The Everyday Lives Of Ordinary People Caught Up In An Extraordinary Time.