New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which reveals a little-known WWI-era government campaign which imprisoned 15.000 women who'd contracted 'social diseases.' This follows the what happens to 17-year-old Boston girl as she's put through the system's wringer. After one night with an Army private, who, when inspection uncovers he has an infection, names Frieda as his 'last contact.' She is sent to a detention camp, with crude medical treatment and mandatory manual labor. "As her body heals and conditions worsen at the detention center, tensions rise to a wrenching climax. Lowenthal ably captures the transformation of a nave adolescent into a woman in his provocative story." (Publishers Weekly) Author Jay Parini's dust jacket praise for this novel is even more appropriate now, almost 20 years later: "It is a vivid story about a shameful chapter in US history and one that has obvious implications for the current political crisis." 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0618546299.