William Morrow
June 2014
On Sale: June 3, 2014
Featuring: Ashley; Maisie Pringle; Liz
336 pages ISBN: 0062132520 EAN: 9780062132529 Kindle: B00FJ314YE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long,
well into September. Often people's lives reflect the
weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a
story.
Once again Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep
into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a
tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments,
and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned.
There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets.
The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a
force to be reckoned with because she will have the final
word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her
daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of
being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that
will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And
Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, whose
dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future keeps them all at
odds.
Luckily for Ashley, her wonderful older brother,
Ivy, is her fierce champion but he can only do so much from
San Francisco where he resides with his partner. And Mary
Beth, her dearest friend, tries to have her back but even
she can't talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with
an ambitious politician who seems slightly too old for
her.
Actually, Ashley and Mary Beth have yet to launch
themselves into solvency. Their prospects seem bleak. So
while they wait for the world to discover them and deliver
them from a ramen-based existence, they placate themselves
with a hare-brained scheme to make money but one that
threatens to land them in huge trouble with the
authorities.
So where is Clayton, Liz's husband? He
seems more distracted than usual. Ashley desperately needs
her father's love and attention but what kind of a parent
can he be to Ashley with one foot in Manhattan and the other
one planted in indiscretion? And Liz, who's an expert in the
field of troubled domestic life, refuses to acknowledge
Ashley's precarious situation. Who's in charge of this
family? The wake-up call is about to arrive.
The
Lowcountry has endured its share of war and bloodshed like
the rest of the South, but this storm season we watch
Maisie, Liz, Ashley, and Mary Beth deal with challenges that
demand they face the truth about themselves. After a
terrible confrontation they are forced to rise to
forgiveness, but can they establish a new order for the
future of them all?
Frank, with her hallmark
scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex
family of disparate characters and their close friends can
overcome anything through the power of love and
reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes
sobering, but always entertaining story of how these
unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.
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