Per Goodreads: "Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible.
When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors,..." [snip].
So, the heroine of The Scarlet Letter meets the author of her story, and sparks of history fly...we'll see.
I gave up on The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar - it was more a didactic rant, a dry angry doctoral thesis, citing myths and international fairy tales I had never read--Beside taking a huge shot at Joseph Campbell's abject misogyny. I just wasn't enjoying her attempt to teach the feminist fervor, so I'll try a different, hopefully more entertaining, approach above. YEMV, of course.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/maria-tatar-heroine-1001-faces/619494/
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