The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman is a historical fiction set in Maine during the height of the lumber boom there. The “strange woman” of the title is Jenny Hager, a beautiful but twisted creature who, due to her dysfunctional upbringing, her own psycho-pathology, and her Jekyll/Hyde struggle between her desire to be a good person and her demons makes the lives of her husbands, lovers, and children alternately happy and miserable. The novel covers some fifty years, from the time when Jenny’s mother deserts her, until her own death some 50 years later.