Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
“One woman's war against the crushing weight of small-town conformity.”
When high-spirited Carol Kennicott moves to Gopher Prairie, she expects to transform the town, but instead finds herself suffocating under the weight of provincial gossip and rigid conformity. This biting satire explores the eternal struggle of a restless visionary trapped in a community that fears progress and prizes mediocrity.
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