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Enthusiasm, redemption, and a battered old suitcase packed with secrets: the New York Times best-selling writer of A Hundred Summers earnings with another engrossing story of lost love and feminine ambition that crosses years. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College or university, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan mag. But when she receives a bulky international parcel in the email, the unexpected details draw her inexorably back into her family's past, and the hushed-over offense passionnel of your aunt she never realized, whose lifestyle has been wiped from the record of history. Berlin, 1914. Violet Schuyler Grant endures her matrimony to the philandering and decades-older scientist Dr. Walter Grant for just one reason: for all those his faults, he provides the necessary support to her liminal position as a young American female physicist in prewar Germany. The arrival of Dr. Grant's magnetic previous student at the beginning of Europe's fateful summertime interrupts this fragile détente. Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army, troubles Violet to flee her husband's perverse hold, and as the earth edges into conflict and Lionel's shocking true motives become visible, Violet is lured to take the ultimate step to create herself free and seek a life of her own conviction with a man whose cause is really as audacious as her own. As the iridescent and fractured Vivian digs deeper into her aunt's past and the puzzle of her ultimate destiny, Violet's tale of perseverance and desire unfolds, losing light on the darkness of her years in foreign countries - and teaching Vivian to reach forward with grace for the ambitious future - and the love - she desires most.
