Seeing in the Dark: Arielle's Story

The action in Seeing in the Dark, Arielle s Story takes place from the mid-1960 s through the 1990 s and is set in suburban New Jersey and New York. Arielle, attractive and intelligent, is a woman who achieves in the challenging profession of electrical engineering, yet struggles to succeed as wife and mother amid the demands of work and the mercurial upheavals in her home life. Tensions build between her polarized worlds of work and home involving her husband s temperament, her children s dangerous choices, and the status of professional women in that era. Arielle's problems are those of ordinary and extraordinary women everywhere. And as she navigates these tumultuous decades she is, in essence, a quiet revolutionary changing other women s lives forever who strive for a vital and meaningful life.