Description: Rosie Sultan's novel imagines a part of Helen Keller's life rarely mentioned: the man she once loved. When Helen is in her thirties and Annie Sullivan is diagnosed with tuberculosis, a young man steps in as a private secretary, opening a new, sensual world to Helen.
Brief description:
Rosie Sultan won a PEN Discovery Award for fiction and earned her MFA at Goddard College. A former fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she has taught writing at Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, and Suffolk University. She lives with her husband and son in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes:
"With empathy, imagination, and vivid sensory detail, Rosie Sultan's Helen Keller in Love gives voice--and scent and touch--to an iconic American heroine during a little-known chapter in her life."
-- "Jane Mendelsohn, New York Times bestselling author of I Was Amelia Earhart"