A chronicle of the author's search for information about her father who died when she was seven years old, discussing how she was forced to give up the romanticized image she had held of him for so long, and in the process had to reevaluate her own life.
Draws from letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle the lives of nine women from the Roosevelt clan, covering a period of 150 years; discussing their activities as wives, mothers, authors, campaigners, and socialites.
With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician, Marco Roth shares his parents' New York, a world centered around house concerts, a private library of literary classics, and dinner discussions of the latest advances in medicine. That world ended when his father began to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s.
Lucy Jarrett returns from Japan to her home in Lake of Dreams, New York, where she becomes caught up in solving the mystery of her father's death ten years earlier, and reignites the flame with her first love, glass artist Keegan Fall.
Alison and Amy were sisters growing up in a Boston suburb, but as they grew older, Alison started to gain incredible amounts of weight while Amy remained slim, and the two different body types pushed the sisters apart so far that Alison decided to get gastric bypass surgery.
