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Rona Jaffe is the New York Times bestselling author of the internationally acclaimed novels The Road Taken, The Cousins, Family Secrets, and Five Women, as well as the classic bestsellers Class Reunion and The Best of Everything. She is the founder of the Rona Jaffe Foundation, which presents a national literary award to promising female writers. She lives in New York City. Visit her website at http://www.ronajaffe.com.
The Room-Mating Season
Leigh, Cady, Vanessa, and Susan meet when they become roommates in a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side. New York in 1963 is a place of magical enchantment and infinite possibilities, especially when you're young and eager for the adventure a big city offers. Even being crammed together in a single bedroom with a kitchen too small to accommodate a table and chairs can't diminish their high spirits. A casting assistant at a talent company, Leigh is the level-headed one, the calm at the center of the whirlwind that is their lives. Cady is a prep-school teacher, emotional, passionate, and ready for love. Vanessa, a stewardess, craves her independence above all else. Susan is the wild card. Mercurial and unconventional, she makes a decision that will have far-reaching consequences in her life-and in the lives, through the years, of the others. Sleeping and dreaming side by side, Leigh, Cady, Vanessa, and Susan could not know the decisions they made in 1963 would be challenged later, not only because they had been young when they made them, but because the world itself was going to change around them. And then, of course, there were the events in their young lives that no one could control...the events that changed everything.
Rona Jaffe's Summer Reading List
The Devil in the White City
by Eric Larson
Murder, magic and madness at the Fair that changed America sounds like a nonfiction thriller I will enjoy.
Random Family
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Love, drugs, trouble and coming of age in the Bronx --- another lively nonfiction book, and I am from Manhattan.
Nine Horses
by Billy Collins
Poems. I heard him read and loved his poetry.
Good Faith
by Jane Smiley
About the real estate business and supposed to be funny and sharp. Got great reviews, so I'll read it.
The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Having seen the movie and being interested in turning books into movies I want to read this, particularly since it is so different from the film.
Dirty Work
by Stuart Woods
Another in the series of Stone Barrington mystery novels, this one is for fun.
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