The Engineer’s Wife

She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally–she knows who she is and what she wants,and she’s determined to make change. But then her husband Wash asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible. Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on holdand her life transformed when Washthe Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridgeis injured on the job. Untrained for the taskbut under his guidanceshe assumes his roledespite stern resistance and overwhelming obstacles. Lines blur as Wash’s vision becomes her ownand when he is unable to return to the jobEmily is consumed by it. But as the project takes shape under Emily’s directionshe wonders whose legacy she is building–hersor her husband’s. As the monument risesEmily’s marriageprinciplesand identity threaten to collapse. When the bridge finally stands finishedwill she recognize the woman who built it? Based on the true story of the Brooklyn BridgeThe Engineer’s Wife delivers an emotional portrait of a woman transformed by a project of unfathomable scalewhich takes her into the bowels of the East Riversuffragette riotsthe halls of Manhattan’s eliteand the headyfreewheeling temptations of P.T. Barnum. It’s the story of a husband and wife determined to build something that lasts–even at the risk of losing each other.