In this book a painter named Sarah
spends the summer months on Rockaway Beach, NY, in the home of her best friend
Emily’s grandmother. Emily is in
Connecticut expecting her third child with her very wealthy husband. Sarah’s parents are in California, where she
has also been living. Her brother died
when she was young and since then she has grown into a relationship with her
parents in which her role is the parent and they have become dependent upon her.
Ostensibly Sarah is supposed to spend
the summer painting in preparation for a new exhibit but her creativity is
drying up and she spends a lot of her time with an older musician named Marty
who shows an interest in her as a friend, but not as a lover. He takes his Jewish religion very seriously
and invites Sarah to his home and to join him and his band members on several
occasions. His part in the story is never made clear to me.
By the end of the book I had developed
a dislike of Sarah because she seemed to make one poor choice after another and
seemed to lack direction. I think that
was the point of the story, however, to demonstrate how a person can reach their
mid-thirties and have no clue what their life has meant so far, and no idea how
to take the next step.
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