Pevsner, Stella

Andrea feels her parents unfairly focus most of their attention on her trouble-making older sister.

Young Heller debates how to handle the intrusion of an aunt into her family life and activities in the summer of 1927.

Twelve-year-old Richard struggles to achieve independence in spite of a learning disability while his great-grandfather defies the family's plans to curtail his own independent lifestyle.

As Bethany struggles to find the reasons why her sister committed suicide, her parents try to repress the incident.

Andrea feels her parents unfairly focus most of their attention on her trouble-making older sister.

Andrea feels her parents unfairly focus most of their attention on her trouble-making older sister.

Thirteen-year-old Hannah feels plain and drab compared to her older and younger sisters, but when both of her divorced parents seem on the verge of remarriage and a series of crises face the family, she is the only one who manages to keep her sanity.

Recalls the events in a North Vietnamese village that forever changed the lives of the youngest daughter of a prosperous trader and her family.