title: Cutting Through
author: Hohl, Joan
description: The sweet core of every life is surrounded by many protective layers. In other words: getting to the good stuff means cutting through the...!
  
  And for childhood friends Julia, Krissy and Laura, there's a lot to cut through! Each grew up with grandiose dreams of happily-ever-after, only to find that real life had another plan. They had grown apart -- but now, in the fourth decade of their lives, a chance meeting brings them back together again.
  
  There's nothing like sisters-in-arms to hand you lemons and say, "Make lemonade -- we'll all have a drink!" And then talk daughters, husbands, shopping malls...and what to do when a serious dose of reality is needed to get to the heart of the matter....