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Random House
August 2011
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Featuring: Babe; Millie; Grace
352 pages
ISBN: 0812992717
EAN: 9780812992717
Hardcover
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Fiction
“War . . . next to love, has most captured the world’s
imagination.”—Eric Partridge, British lexicographer,
1914 A story of love, war, loss, and the scars
they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of three
young women and their men during the years of World War II
and its aftermath, beginning with the men going off to war
and ending a generation later, when their children are on
the cusp of their own adulthood. Set in a small town
in Massachusetts, the novel follows three childhood friends,
Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose lives are unmoored when their
men are called to duty. And yet the changes that are thrust
upon them move them in directions they never dreamed
possible—while their husbands and boyfriends are enduring
their own transformations. In the decades that follow, the
three friends lose their innocence, struggle to raise their
children, and find meaning and love in unexpected places.
And as they change, so does America—from a country in which
people know their place in the social hierarchy to a world
in which feminism, the Civil Rights movement, and
technological innovations present new possibilities—and
uncertainties. And yet Babe, Millie, and Grace remain bonded
by their past, even as their children grow up and away and a
new society rises from the ashes of the
war. Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to
Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship,
and illuminates a transformational moment in American history.
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