Description
Book SynopsisThe multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer
Trade Review"[An] exhilarating, intimate study of fate, chance and the wildly meaningful intersections of disparate lives….Belkin writes insightfully and engagingly….She has a keen eye for an anecdote and a sharp sense of humor." -- Robert Kolker - The New York Times Book Review
"Ms. Belkin stages the drama with the pace and tension of a Greek tragedy...gripping....though-provoking." -- Tom Nolan - The Wall Street Journal
"Lisa Belkin has taken an incredible story and unraveled it in the most masterful way. This is an intensely readable, fascinating book that will be with you for a long time." -- Julie Klam, author of The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction
"A generational saga both exquisitely detailed and majestically sweeping.… This wonderful book by master storyteller Lisa Belkin carries the reader effortlessly along, revealing profound truths about the history of our country, the intertwined nature of our personal stories, and the forces—often hidden—driving our own lives, our own loves, our own times." -- Liza Mundy, author of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
"In this riveting narrative, Lisa Belkin brings history to life. Weaving philosophical, psychological, historical, and personal threads, she dissects how the past shapes us and makes us who we are. Meticulously researched and beautifully constructed, this book reads like historical fiction—though it is, almost unfathomably, true." -- Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train and The Exiles
