Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. A young couple in New York start with nothing, and the book follows the money — the flat, the babies, the raise that does not come, the years in which she is always tired. Norris lost both parents at nineteen and worked as a bookkeeper and clerk to raise her younger siblings; she wrote domestic economics as fiction and became one of the highest-paid writers in America. The undertow is the ordinary one. Fifty-three plates by painters including George Bellows and Gwen John, 1881 to 1925, hold the rooms, streets and tired bodies of the era this marriage moves through.