Invisible Women of Washington

"Collier's novel is just that, work of literature, not a leaden expose of what we should already know... it succeeds to a high degree.. I hope you will buy this book". -- The Nation

"In The Invisible Women of Washington, novelist Diana G. Collier takes the reader to the edge of the abyss". -- Bloomsbury Review

The setting is downtown Washington, a few blocks from the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institute. The characters are the inhabitants of a women's residence, paying $54 a week for single rooms, no cooking allowed, toilet down the hall. Welcome to hell. This novel on the experience of the homeless sheds more light than any Bill Moyers special possibly could. Collier plumbs the abyss with political acuity, humor, an extensive, solid characterization of even the most insignificant characters, and an unsurpassed eye for detail. Her vision transforms women we might have passed unseeing on the street into women who touch our hearts.