Download or read book The Real Minerva written by Mary Sharratt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1923 Minerva, Minnesota, the status quo is firmly entrenched and rigidly enforced. "The Real Minerva" employs the same lively, feminist spirit of Sharratt's debut work, "Summit Avenue," as she follows the lives of three women in this repressive Midwestern town.