From the bestselling author of CITY OF DREAMS and BRISTOL HOUSE, an encore e-book editon of WOMEN'S RITES
Beverly Swerling "has a fine-tuned understanding of the pulls and torments of women trying to find their own way in today's life." —Houston Chronicle
"An engrossing tale…pleasantly full of the unexpected." —Louisville Times
"A page-turner rich in romance and exotic description." —Desert Sun
"The perfect book for summer reading." —UPI
"Starch and spunk…and a gusty, punchy pace." —Kirkus Reviews
Enter the dazzling world of Women's Rites, rich with passion, illicit love, revenge, and mystery. A world of friendship, celebration, sacrifice, and beauty. A world of broken vows, where religious and sexual boundaries cross. A world where the past reaches out to the present, changing the destiny of all.
In the Boston suburb of Revere in 1960, two young girls are "best friends forever." Barbie Korman is beautiful, insecure, and Jewish. Maria Trapetti is intense and brilliant, molded by her Italian Catholic heritage. Though they take different paths after school—Barbie becomes a model and Maria enters a convent—their lives are bound by an enduring friendship and by a legacy centuries old. That legacy is the story of another woman's love and loss, represented by an exquisitely carved figurine from the island of Lanzarote known simply as "the Lady."
The lives of all three—even the lady of long ago—will explode in the turbulence of the sixties in this tale of the ways women comfort each other and sacrifice for each other, and for the men they love, as they pursue winding, sometimes tortuous, paths to fulfillment and destiny.
Genre: Historical
Beverly Swerling "has a fine-tuned understanding of the pulls and torments of women trying to find their own way in today's life." —Houston Chronicle
"An engrossing tale…pleasantly full of the unexpected." —Louisville Times
"A page-turner rich in romance and exotic description." —Desert Sun
"The perfect book for summer reading." —UPI
"Starch and spunk…and a gusty, punchy pace." —Kirkus Reviews
Enter the dazzling world of Women's Rites, rich with passion, illicit love, revenge, and mystery. A world of friendship, celebration, sacrifice, and beauty. A world of broken vows, where religious and sexual boundaries cross. A world where the past reaches out to the present, changing the destiny of all.
In the Boston suburb of Revere in 1960, two young girls are "best friends forever." Barbie Korman is beautiful, insecure, and Jewish. Maria Trapetti is intense and brilliant, molded by her Italian Catholic heritage. Though they take different paths after school—Barbie becomes a model and Maria enters a convent—their lives are bound by an enduring friendship and by a legacy centuries old. That legacy is the story of another woman's love and loss, represented by an exquisitely carved figurine from the island of Lanzarote known simply as "the Lady."
The lives of all three—even the lady of long ago—will explode in the turbulence of the sixties in this tale of the ways women comfort each other and sacrifice for each other, and for the men they love, as they pursue winding, sometimes tortuous, paths to fulfillment and destiny.
Genre: Historical
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