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Katharine Weber's central story of the 1911 tragic fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory has SO much potential....but, the end product just doesn't hold together for me. Esther Gottesfields, an immigrant and factory worker who survives the fire, is a sympathetic and interesting central character. The social-economic conditions are vivid and dramatic. What goes wrong? The author fractures her story between the grand daughter (who searches for the fire story,) her husband (who obsesses over his academic music career), and then the most awful, unprofessional "feminist" academic card board character who sees everything as power point and career enhancement. The later character was aggressive, abusive, self centered, and unbelievably unprofessional -- "oh, by the way I'm taping this...that is ok, isn't it?" It seemed to me the author couldn't develop the story beyond the basic idea (a great one), so used a lot of filler.