Frontier Grit

This book was a solid 4 stars for the most part — the author did a great job with racial diversity, which I appreciated, and the lives of the women she picked were interesting. I wrote down several of them for further reading. However, I had to drop a star for the way she approached Charley Parker's story. Had the author merely stuck to the facts, it would have been a great story. However, instead, she blithely put her own label on Charley's gender (and sexuality, making a few throwaway comments that were borderline offensive) even though she specifically stated that there's no evidence clarifying Charley's feelings on the subject. And while her wrap-up segments for each chapter ranged from thought-provoking to embarrassingly saccharine, Charley's was, in my opinion, the worst of the bunch.

Listened on audiobook, and though the narrator took a few minutes for me to get used to, I wound up loving her.