As you can tell by my Good Reads reading lists that I love historical fiction, especially those on women, strong women. In Jenni L. Walsh’s novel “A Betting Woman” we go on a journey of a woman who is living in New Orlean’s Louisiana when her entire family parishes in a fire and she runs away from her fiancé and starts a new life in 1849 in San Francisco during the Gold Rush. She makes her money by running a gambling table for a game called Chug A Lug also known nowadays as Blackjack or 21. This is based on a true woman who established a gambling club and went by Madame Moustache. I love that she did things on her own terms and didn’t let the culture of the times dictate how she wanted to live her life.
If you like historical novels about real woman who lived and did it on their own terms then this is a story for you.
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