Carlton, Susan R. F. K.

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte wants nothing more than to escape the tiny island off the Maine coast where she has spent her life, and so she works on applications to boarding schools while wondering if her parents and young siblings are ready for her to leave, or if she is ready to leave her life-long boyfriend.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe brings her friend MJ to San Francisco, one of the few places where an abortion can be obtained legally in 1971, to get rid of Chloe's "Thing" while staying with her bohemian Aunt Kiki, experiencing hippie culture, and reconnecting with a former boyfriend.