“I’ve read your proposal,” Dr. Roger Conlin stated. “But I don’t think it will work.”
“Wait,” Mona said. “What?”
Two weeks had passed since the fireworks had driven Mona from her apartment. She’d spent the bulk of those weeks at the booth in the diner or a caddy in the library, researching Kitty Genovese and writing her dissertation proposal. She’d narrowed her focus on Kitty’s story to New York City itself as a place of refuge and anonymity for queer people. Though Kitty’s relationship with women had been covered up in the press and her live-in girlfriend, Mary Ann, referred to as only a “roommate” in court testimony, Kitty’s death actually led to a stronger connection in the LGBT community and then later visibility—or so Mona believed.
In her research, she’d found out that Mary Ann ha
