Silhouette of a Sparrow is set in the summer of 1926, where sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. But in the country, Garnet finds herself under the supervision of oppressive guardians--her father’s wealthy cousin and the matron’s stuck-up daughter. Only a liberating job in a hat shop, an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper, and faith in herself, can save her from the expectations placed on her by society, and her mother.