Affinities Author:Ernest A. Ittner Set against the raw and growing frontier of Omaha, Nebraska, during the post Civil War years, "Affinities!" is a warm and understanding novel which takes up the problem of marriage and divorce and especially underscores the tensions and deeply immoral nature of misalliance in an age when divorce was a tabooed subject and pretense dominated the d... more »omestic scene. Rebelling against her too-swift marriage to an uncouth and course-grained go-getter, Annie Laurie Ritz, a gently born and gently reared Easterner, deserts her husband while they are honeymooning and are en route to Omaha. Chance throws her into the path of young Dr. Flood whose life she saves and whose love she is willing to accept. But the kind and generous doctor is married to a cold, conventional and narrow-minded woman who has rigid religious scruples about marriage and divorce...« less