That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole5/10/2023 Andromeda Stiel appears in her life bringing her grandfather’s story to add to Mrs. She’s buried her romantic dreams along with her earlier ambitions as a writer. Her past includes a childhood in an orphanage and a series of romances with women that were shipwrecked on the rocks of the absence of social models for their permanence. Hamilton as well as a part-time secretary, taking and transcribing dictation of the interviews that are being collected. This is a review only of the third story, though I intend to read the others at a later point. Hamilton’s quest to collect stories and anecdotes about her husband after his death. And additional unifying theme is a direct personal connection to Alexander Hamilton via the framing device of Mrs. The collection Hamilton’s Battalion operates at the intersection of those two topics, being a collection of three historic romance novellas focusing on respectively a Jewish couple with the woman joining the army passing as a man (“Promised Land” by Rose Lerner), a same-sex male couple, one of whom is black (“The Pursuit of.” by Courtney Milan), and a same-sex female couple, both of whom are black (“That Could Be Enough” by Alyssa Cole). The musical Hamilton has quite deservedly stirred up a lot of interest in the Revolutionary War era and, from a separate angle, in history as experienced through lives that don’t fit the straight white male Christian default.
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