Rowing in Eden

the long version

"Pynch Lake is quiet nine months of the year but bursts into life each summer when the vacationers arrive. In the summer of 1965 year-round residents Harold and Peg Wahl find the world that once belonged to them is now being taken over by their older daughters, returned from college for the summer. Cool and self-possessed Rosamund is receiving the attention of the family friend who formerly courted Peg. Martie is filling the house with parties and houseguests of her own. No one in the family is paying much attention to the precocious thirteen-year-old Franny, who sets out to find a life of her own - and, in the process, turns the Wahl family upside down."--BOOK JACKET.