"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--.
While balancing between life and death, an elderly woman remembers the terrors she faced during World War II, and the events that changed her life after the liberation. Scott lives in Brighton, NY, and teaches at UR.
The sheep dog Mack is the only constant in his owner Justine Mead's life, and when she travels back to her childhood home Mack is lost and then found by the couple Alice and Ed Parmalee who are mourning the death of their daughter.