Synopsis:

A waitress and now a single mother, Renata wants only to give her baby boy, Charlie, a better start. So she packs up her spare life, leaves her boyfriend behind, and heads across the country in search of a new place to begin. She settles in Boston, and her life is suddenly changed by her chance meeting of two unlikely women: Eleanor, a seventy-eight-year-old widow who is stripping away the layers of her past, and June, an ambitious dance student who relies on a psychic to help her manage her estranged relationships—all the while keeping a shocking secret.

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Topics/Categories:

Aging, Eating Disorders, Mothering, Women's Friendships

Genre:

Fiction

Type of Work:

Novel

Publishers:

W.W. Norton Co., Inc.

Awards:

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection

Original Publish Date:

1997-06-19

ISBNs:

0-393-04099-2 0-345-42553-7