Carousel of progress
Subtitle: a novel
By: Katherine Tanney.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Villard
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Children of divorced parents -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Teenage girls -- Fiction; California, Southern -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Southern California, 1978. In a land of nose jobs, bell-bottoms, and grapefruit diets, Meredith Herman is a fourteen-year-old navigating a world that seems to have come off its axis. She's facing all the usual trials of adolescence - namely boys, school, and a hopelessly uncool wardrobe - but just as things are starting to come together, Meredith's mother hangs a midlife U-turn.

After sixteen years of marriage, making dinner and playing bridge have lost their appeal for Leigh Herman, and she seeks relief in assertiveness classes and a dalliance with an exotic artist named Kamran. Meredith's father, Robert, is genuinely baffled by his wife's new pursuits, and soon their marriage is in its painful last act, with Meredith its most fervent observer."--BOOK JACKET.