Mothers Daughtrs

"A witty, sometimes withering novel of marriage and divorce and the way we live today--a story of two people in love who ignore their own sexual history, of their children, poised to repeat it, and of the loose Southern California culture that formed them. Ruth is a divorcee with two daughters, a job in television, friends, and occasional lovers. Then why the insomnia, the nameless fears in the night, the disturbing flashes of her own mistakes in her children? When Marc, the glamour figure of her youth, former lover of her best friend, comes to town, she sees him against her better judgment and falls in love. This time it will be different. But theirs is a love affair threatened by the clutter of the past--children, friends, the people they once were. Mothers, Daughters is a novel about middle-aged men and women caught in a youth culture from which they are precluded by the baggage of their lives, about parents eagerly embracing a sexual revolution while their children grow to maturity before their startled eyes, about responsibility and running away and, finally, about the demands of love. A wise and moving book, and a powerful look at a contemporary life-style of splintered families and fragile relationships."--Jacket.