From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story of New York in the 60sIts 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasnt seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging 60s. He soon learns that Ladygiddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being freeis as much his ...
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From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story of New York in the 60sIts 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasnt seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging 60s. He soon learns that Ladygiddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being freeis as much his responsibility as he is hers. So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the 60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam WarLady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself. From a writer The New York Times has praised as sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting, Fin & Lady is a comic, romantic love story: the story of a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in increasingly unconventional times.
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