num_pages: 305
description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Friendship loyalty and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written poignant and sweeping novel of five women who over the course of four decades come to redefine what it means to be family.This generous and inventive book is a delight to read an evocation of the power of friendship to sustain encourage and embolden us. Join the sisterhood!Karen Joy Fowler author of The Jane Austen Book ClubFor thirty-five years Frankie Linda Kath Brett and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These Wednesday Sisters seem to have little in Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete Kath is a Kentucky debutante quiet Ally has a secret and quirky ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literatureFitzgerald Eliot Austen du Maurier Plath and Dickensand the Miss America Pageant which they watch together every year.As the years roll on and their children grow the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems stories and eventually books. Along the way they experience history in the Vietnam the race for the moon and a womens movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity longing illness failure and success.Humorous and moving The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful mysterious unbreakable bonds between friends.
language: English
title: The Wednesday Sisters
publisher: Ballantine Books