978-1-889199-12-2
$14.00 paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
240 pages
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"Exceptionally well-handled flashbacks help readers follow this complex story, which takes more than one incredible turn. This insightful book will resonate with readers who grew up in the Fifties."
Library Journal
A poignant novel about women's friendships, Riggs Park is the story of Barbara and Marilyn, who once shared an idyllic childhood in the modest Riggs Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Now, at age 58, they're each dealing with a crisis of late middle age, yet feel driven to return to the old neighborhood to solve a decades-old mystery that still haunts them. What they discover is a heart-wrenching secret that tests them even further. Will it shatter the resilience that got them trhough the repressive social mores of the 1950s, the white flight from the city, the fevered years of feminism and antifeminism and childrearing? Or will it give them the strength to move on?
about the author
Ellyn Bache is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books, including the novel Safe Passage, which was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon, and a short story collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. She divides her time between Greenville, South Carolina, and the Philadelphia suburbs. |
