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The Home-Maker

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It’s the 1920s and gender roles are set in stone—can it be anything but “unhappily ever after” for the hapless Knapps?

Evangeline is quite possibly the best home-maker in town, but keeping her home and family in immaculate condition is killing her—and them. Her husband, Lester, is suffering too—a poet and a dreamer trapped in the body of a bookkeeper, he’s professionally inadequate and personally disengaged. Meanwhile, the Knapp children are chafing under the weight of their mother’s too-great expectations.

But then, life (quite literally) knocks a man to the ground, and spouses (figuratively) swap shoes—can the Knapps have a second chance at domestic bliss when they throw social conventions out with the dishwater?

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About the Author

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) was a prolific American author of novels and nonfiction for adults and children. She was a social activist, an educational reformer, and a founding figure of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Published in 1924, The Home-Maker was one of the ten bestselling novels that year.

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Edition

First Quite Literally Books edition copyright © 2025
Foreword and Afterword to this edition of The Home-Maker copyright © 2025 by Molly Brown and Christine Jacobson. All rights reserved.

Paperback

320 pages

ISBN-13

978-1-964782-00-3

Library of Congress Control Number

2025930552

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