The story of three women who first meet as actresses in a summer stock production of "Fiddler on the Roof," and go on to be the best of friends for the next four decades. They experience much together -- love, marriage, illness, adultery, loss, even betrayal, yet somehow the friendship persists....until one of them unexpectedly drops out of sight. Alarmed for her well-being, the other two return to Manhattan, the site of memories both euphoric and painful, to search for her. In the process of looking for her, they come to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves.
The story travels back and forth in time much the way memory does, piecing together the women's friendship against the background of the AIDS crisis, the savings and loan debacle, the World Trade Center tragedy, the California wildfires, and the ever-changing face of Manhattan.
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