The Other Typist Summary
Suzanne Rindell

The Other Typist Overview

The Other Typist is a literary thriller told from the point of view of Rose Baker, a young, single woman living in New York City in the 1920s. When Rose meets Odalie, the new typist at the precinct where Rose works, she begins behaving unexpectedly, drinking, smoking, and going to speakeasies in the age of Prohibition. The novel explores the themes of feminism, identity, jealousy, loneliness, and the desire for confession.