Advised to protect their graduate student husbands from stress, three women face confl icts within each marriage amid anti-war protests, drug use, racial unrest and the emerging feminist movement.
Told from the women s perspectives, the story begins in harmony, but turns to discord as:
Meg struggles to balance motherhood with her own academic ambitions, and copes with her husband s violent mood swings;
Rosemary, daughter of a British coal-miner, copes with her upperclass husband s verbal abuse;
Terry, an artist familiar with the drugs of the time, married to a former Navy SEAL, balances her anti-war activism against her husband s Vietnam memories.
Advised to protect their graduate student husbands from stress, three women face confl icts within each marriage amid anti-war protests, drug use, racial unrest and the emerging feminist movement.
Told from the women s perspectives, the story begins in harmony, but turns to discord as:
Meg strug...