"Growing up in the Plains country of west Texas, eighteen-year-old David Puckett is torn between his desire for commitment and intimacy, and a need for power and self-sufficiency. He's handsome and clever, and sometimes even lucky."
"After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their grandmothers appear the very next day to scoop up the girls and their inconsolable father, Nick, and take them home to small-town Oregon. The women are full of loving resolve, but good intentions are small guns against the waves of adolescence and the young family's shocking history. Besides, the women--at ages sixty and seventy--are at their own crossroads. Across the months of spring, Nick reels from heartbreak and guilt; the sisters drift apart in the shoals of middle school; three marriages are tested; and the grandmothers seek new footing, in their own lives and with each other. There is no best way forward, but making-do offers the girls a path to the future; and the women discover they have surprising futures of their own yet to live."
"It's the early Sixties. The Grateful Dead and free love are still around the corner. But the young woman in these three stories knows that sex is the coin of the realm. From Mexico to Mykonos, she is looking for a place to light, and she thinks she'll know when she is finally home. For sure she knows she doesn't want men to tell her how to live. She doesn't even want them saying her name."
