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The year 1946 in America is a time for seizing opportunitiesand the best way for a woman to get ahead is to marry well. Descended from the wealthy Van Vliets, owners of a successful supermarket chain, Em Wynan is the first of her sorority sisters to walk down the aisle with a handsome war veteran. Nine months later, she delivers fraternal twin sons. Ems younger sister, the fun-loving Caroline, is her polar opposite, championing liberal causes at UCLA and falling in love with a radical writer. For Carolines best friend, Beverly Linde, finding the right husband is more complicated because as a Holocaust survivor, she will carry the stigma and horrors of World War II forever.
Set against the backdrop of a radically changing American landscape, the lives of these three women intersect through decades of friendship, rivalry, love, and inconsolable loss. As Em, Caroline, and Beverlys children come of age during the 1960sa time of danger and drugs, the breakdown of societys sexual taboos, and inner peace found among bizarre cultsthey discover that parents cannot always save their children from tragedy, even if they have powerful, rich friends.ￃﾂￂﾠ
