Three young daughters struggle to cope with their parents' divorce, dislocation, and the radical new lifestyle their mother adopts when she falls in love with an Esalen expert on passion and love, in a story set in the early 1970s and narrated by eight-year-old Kate. A first novel. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days of the second gilded age. India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the writer, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplane swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her life, one who will change everything.The stranger isWin Johns, a swaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage- backed securities. Charmed by India’s intelligence, humor, and inquisitive nature—and aware of her near-desperate financial situation—Win poses a proposition: “Give me eighteen months and I’ll make you a world-class bond trader.” Shedding her artist’s life with surprising ease, India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of the income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real estate, never once looking back . . .Or does she?With a light-handed irony that is by turns as measured as Claire Messud’s and as biting as Tom Wolfe’s, Martha McPhee tells the classic American story of people reinventing themselves, unaware of the price they must pay for their transformation.

A collection of original photographs and candid profiles describes the complex and diverse world of modern American girls, detailing their lives, beliefs, attitudes, goals for the future, interests, and self-images. 30,000 first printing.

In a sequel taking place twenty years after the events in Bright Angel Time, the family of dying therapist Anton Furey finds its precarious balance upset by their efforts to make peace with Anton and each other. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Meeting on a small Aegean island, Beth, an ambitious American dreamer raised in a commune, and Cesare, the cosseted Italian scion of a prosperous family, embark on a life-altering love affair that spans two decades, two continents, and two lifetimes. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.