Robert Butler’s Titanic survivor is an early 1900s women’s rights campaigner. After “waking up” in a lifeboat off the Miami coast in the 1990s, she realizes that there is no place for her in the modern world. Women have been emancipated, and her family and friends are all dead. A gender-confused misandrist, the only man she has ever had strong feelings for (other than her father) went down with the Titanic. Having lacked the courage to express her feelings at the time, she decides to find him again. Themes: change, father-daughter relationships, finding purpose and meaning in life, sexuality, love.
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