discarded by library; softcover; 320pp; published, 1982

Photo of cover shown is from July, 1997, reprint edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this novel, Susanna Moore displays a naturalist's eye for the landscape of her native Hawaii and an uncanny sensitivity to the despairing love between mothers and daughters. Lily Shields grows up amid the fragrance of night-jasmine and burning sugar cane, and the heady atmosphere of her mother's madness. For if Anna Shields is an island unto herself - fragile, glamorous, and fearfully needy - Lily is the bridge that connects her to reality. But now Lily is a young woman and a mother herself, self-exiled from Hawaii but still attached to Anna's tragedy.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Susanna Moore's novel astonished me -- one of those brilliant objects that come along only rarely, all light and clear water, and then one realizes the faster currents underneath, the terrible swiftness of sex and time.
— Joan Didion

RELEASE NOTES:

released to nursing home