Weber, Katharine

Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky knows she has not been accepted by everyone in the Ziplinsky family, but her dedication to the family's candy factory helps her overlook the family's shortcomings, and as she traces the history of the factory, she finds greater respect for her in-laws.

The Green sisters seem to lead a perfect life, but when one sister uncovers their mother's affair, they are devastated by the betrayal and move to New York, where they try to rebuild their trust and start a new life.

Rebecca, granddaughter of the recently deceased Esther Gottsfeld, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, looks for answers to some of the questions and inconsistencies in her grandmother's accounts of the famous conflagration, while being hounded by a persistent historian who believes Esther was not telling the whole truth.