“A moving and beautifully cadenced story. Anyone old enough to have lived through the tumultuous, free love, drug and color enhanced ’70s will recognize these characters. The novel is a poem where it is the images and concepts that rhyme; Ruth high on her ladder, Beth stitching and fretting, and Lonnie swimming set a rhythm we follow from the early seventies to the twenty-first century. The women at the center and the various men who intersect their lives all come alive, with their desires, confusions and aspirations. You may want to re-read the opening just for the pleasure of the prose. —Geoffrey Fox, author of A Gift for the Sultan and Welcome to My Contri
