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Library Journal – July 15, 2008
“Clayton’s well-developed characters embody the best and the worst
qualities in all women. They are endearing, infuriating, and real,
so much so that you won’t want to say good-bye to them when this
engaging book ends.”
-- Jeanne Bogino, New Lebanon Lib., NY |
Booklist – April 18, 2008
“Set during the summer of 1968 in Palo Alto, California, Clayton’s
novel chronicles the lives of five women who conduct a weekly
writing group at their neighborhood park… The women share their
feelings about marriage and motherhood… support one another through
illness, infertility, racism, and infidelity—and encourage each
other through publishers’ rejections. Readers will be swept up by
this moving novel about female friendship and enthralled by the
recounting of a pivotal year in American history as seen through
these young women’s eyes.”
-- Aleksandra Walker |
Publishers Weekly – March 4, 2008
“Clayton chronicles a group of mothers who convene in a Palo Alto
park and share their changing lives as the late 1960s counterculture
blossoms around them… Frankie, a Chicago transplant who has followed
her computer genius husband to a nascent Silicon Valley, is the
story's narrator and the ladies' ringleader, inspiring them all to
follow her dream of becoming a writer. They write in moments
snatched from their household chores and share their stories in the
park… Clayton ably conjures the era's details and captures the
women's changing roles in a world that expects little of them.” |
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