Four bored girls dawdle out of the post office in Monroe, California, waiting for five o’clock and sodas at the drug store. One of them, Martie, longs for something more than village gossip and her family’s narrow expectations, and the novel follows her through love, marriage and hardship in New York as she learns to make her own way.
A warm, perceptive novel about a woman’s independence by one of the best-selling American writers of her generation. Download the free EPUB.