Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer -- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place -- feels her...

Two Aborigine children in Australia are taken from their parents and given to whites to be civilized. The boy ends up in jail while his sister goes into an orphanage, then rejoins her people and becomes an advocate for Aborigine rights. By the author of Mutant Message Down Under.