Dance Night

Dance Night by Powell, Dawn. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781883642716.

It is sometime after the turn of the century in Lamptown, Ohio, a working-class town filled with factory girls. Every Thursday night at the Casino Dance Hall above Bauers Chop House and across the street from Elsinore Abbotts Bon Ton Hat Shop and Bill Delaneys Saloon and Billiard Parlor, women and a few men gather to escape their pedestrian lives in fantasy, and sometimes to live out these fantasies. Observing all are the novels two young protagonists, Morry, who dreams of becoming an architect and developer, and Jen, an unsentimental orphan of fourteen who, abandoned by her mother, dreams of escape.