Book number three in our library of recommended reads is So Big by Edna Ferber. Amazingly, the book celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2024, but its themes continue to resonate today. The 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, was prescient in many ways, focusing on a woman who confronts the conventions of the time while framing herself within them, touching on motherhood, capitalism, class struggles, the desire for a better life and a longing for beauty and art.