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Delacorte Press
February 2011
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Featuring: Iris Stern; Anna
320 pages
ISBN: 0385344120
EAN: 9780385344128
Kindle: B004C43GJ2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Saga | Women's Fiction Historical
Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of
relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. For
three decades her deeply moving epics have captivated the
hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere. Now, in her
final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took
up in her very first work, Evergreen, bringing us
this unforgettable story of family and friendship, love and
marriage, the challenges of life and the true secret of
happiness. Though Iris Stern considers herself a
modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy
marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned
sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children,
each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often
finds those sensibilities called into question when
confronted with the choices her children have made. For one
of Iris’s daughters, it’s the choice of a fresh
start in New York City—and a last chance to save her
troubled marriage. While Laura and Robbie cope with an
impending separation and its effect on Iris’s young
granddaughter, Iris herself must come to grips with the
discovery of a long-held family secret. But it’s an
emotional parting of another kind that looms most
prominently on Iris’s horizon—as neither her beloved
husband, nor the solidity of her own marriage, is immune to
the ravages of time. Through separations and reunions, the
changes we cannot avoid and the love that sustains, Iris
will weather whatever lies ahead with a faith
that cannot be shaken. Like the inmost rings of a tree that abide through the
generations, she will be as strong as heartwood.
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