


Alice is flawed and tends to repress negative emotions, making her an unreliable narrator to say the least. Alice Lind serves as an engaging protagonist-struggling to succeed in a “man’s” profession.

Winters slowly amps up the suspense and sets up an amazingly atmospheric novel. Yesternight by Cat Winters is an incredible historical mystery. The child’s supposed reincarnation and her troubled youth are intertwined in ways no one can expect. Alice delves deeper into the mystery but finds her own past drawn into the spotlight. Even more shocking is that the child claims to have memories and abilities from a long-deceased woman. Alice discovers a child with incredible intelligence and aptitude for mathematics that surpasses the sleepy schoolhouse run by one teacher. Working for the Department of Education, Alice Lind administers tests to children and ascertains the quality of education in the area. A child psychologist travels to Oregon in 1925 on a relatively simple case.
