The high ideals and inevitable compromises of the 1960s form the background to this acclaimed novel by Jennifer Egan.Phoebe O'Connor, eighteen years old in the summer of 1978, is too young to know the 1960s, but old enough to feel the anxiety of their influence.She is obsessed by the memory of her charismatic older sister, Faith, a flower child who died in Italy in 1970.Searching for the truth about Faith's death...
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