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Large print edition. |
| Description |
547 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
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| Summary |
In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. During the weekdays, freedom reigns. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss for members of this close-knit clan. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was twelve years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath, of expanding lives painfully collapsed. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others? |
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Sisters -- Fiction.
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Jewish women -- Fiction.
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Jewish families -- Fiction.
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Adultery -- Fiction.
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Vacation homes -- Fiction.
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Children -- Death -- Fiction.
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Accidents -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Jewish women. (OCoLC)fst00983062
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Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
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Life change events. (OCoLC)fst00998231
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Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| ISBN |
9781410490773 (hardcover) |
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1410490777 (hardcover) |
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