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Hortense Calisher's revelatory novel of super star, small-town prices, and a young woman's arriving of eraFamous playwright Craig Towle has made a decision to return to his NJ hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives along with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his era. It is the 1950s, and the new few raises a great deal of eyebrows - in particular, those of the narrator, a teenager girl who is full of observations, but not judgments. At the guts of this split novel is the narrator's unconventional family and their unusual fixation on Towle, which goes beyond his mere super star. The secrets of their past and the involvement of Towle in the family's lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn.