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Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story.
1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don't have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family's disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely bond on a campus unkind to women.
Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes, and the women's paths are forced apart. But against all odds, a decades-long friendship forms, persevering through love, marriage, failure, and death, from the jungles of Vietnam to the glamorous circles of Hollywood. Until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads.
Fifty years later, two estranged sisters are shocked when a famous movie star shows up at their mother's funeral. Over one tumultuous weekend, the women must reckon with a dazzling truth about their family that will alter their lives forever...
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Release date
December 6, 2022 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780369717726
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- ISBN: 9780369717726
- File size: 1103 KB
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Languages
- English
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Starred review from October 1, 2022
Told through alternating viewpoints and flashbacks, Fader's latest (after The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season, 2020) opens with estranged sisters Abbie and Carla burying their mother, BettyKay. They are dumbfounded when famous movie star Kitty Devereaux tells them she and BettyKay were friends. In 1967 in Iowa, BettyKay and Kitty were roommates in nursing school. While Kitty dreamed of the big city, BettyKay was studious but found out she was pregnant shortly after her fianc๏ฟฝ died in the Vietnam War. Kitty used all her resources to help BettyKay get an abortion so she wouldn't get kicked out of the program. Shortly after the procedure, BettyKay helped Kitty make it to Hollywood, where she quickly became a star. Despite their distance, they found themselves leaning on each other in times of uncertainty and need. The Sunshine Girls will have readers sitting on the edge of their seats while learning all about BettyKay's life alongside that of her daughters. Jane Green and Jennifer Weiner fans will enjoy this novel about two unlikely friends and the secrets that united them.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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