Three women struggle against overwhelming odds to find freedom in the summer of 1964, and all three find their own path to independence, understanding, and peace, despite the obstacles fate throws at them.
Myra Lipinsky, a fifty-one-year-old visiting nurse who never married and has resigned herself to a solitary life with her dog, crosses paths with the man she admired from afar in high school when he becomes one of her patients--one with a terminal illness.
John and Irene, now divorced, living in different parts of the country, and dating other people, share a love for their spunky sixteen-year-old daughter, Sadie, but when tragedy strikes, the two are instantly brought back together.
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Katie, still mourning the death of her much-loved mother, is further upset when she must leave her friends to move with her father to Missouri, but then she meets Jimmy, a handsome, decent, married man, and learns about the joys and pain of first love.
Katie spends the lazy days of summer waiting for life to begin; waiting to fall in love; and waiting for the beatings to stop. Since the death of her mother, she and her sister have struggled to understand their father's violent behavior.
