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Few writers have understood the tender intricacies of romantic relationships better than the matchless Belva Plain. For three decades her deeply moving epics have captivated the hearts and imaginations of viewers just about everywhere. Now, in her last novel, she comes back to where it started with the themes or templates she used in her initial work, Evergreen, having us this memorable report of family and a friendly relationship, love and matrimony, the troubles of life and the true secret of contentment.Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy matrimony, she still keeps steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to carry, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the options her children have made. For one of Iris's daughters, it's the choice of a fresh start in NEW YORK - and a last chance to save lots of her troubled matrimony. While Laura and Robbie manage an impending separation and its influence on Iris's young granddaughter, Iris herself must come to grips with the finding of any long-held family magic formula. But it's an emotional parting of another kind that looms most prominently on Iris's horizon as neither her cherished man, nor the solidity of her own matrimony, is immune to the ravages of their time. Through separations and reunions, the changes we can not avoid and the love that sustains, Iris will weather whatever lays ahead with a faith that can't be shaken. Like the inmost rings of any tree that abide through the years, she'll be as strong as heartwood.
