Three women - Rachel, her daughter Phoebe, and Phoebe's daughter Maggie, share a house but inhabit different worlds. Rachel is a seventy-four-year-old paleontologist on the brink of relinquishing a long-held scientific theory. Phoebe is a gardener and once-promising mathematician and is struggling with breast cancer; her fifteen-year-old daughter is preparing to throw off childhood. During the course of a wakeful night each woman determines she must face her crisis alone, free of pretenses and untruths, looking at death, error, adulthood and life straight on. The dust jacket has a diagonal 1" scratch on the front, a small closed tear near that, and the spine top is wrinkled with a small tear. 216 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

FICTION GENERAL FAMILIES SISTERS MOTHERS