The Simpering, North Dakota, Literary Society

Card shark and ex-nun, Farika Zingarella, won the greatest game of poker ever played. Her prize, the town of Simpering, North Dakota. Gathering like-minded female geniuses to her side, she established an empire capable of holding off the world - which is precisely what they did. There wasn't much to laugh about in 1919 -World War I had ended, but fascism was on the rise overeas. American women held fast on the suffrage question. Then along came the "Mighty Five" of the Literary Society. You've never lived in a town like this