ASIN: B009R0XTSY
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 450
Four sisters, two wars, one epidemic, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.Beginning in rural Missouri in 1911 and ending in San Francisco during the final days of World War II, this is the story of the four Alexander sisters, all with very different lives. They are the granddaughters of first settlers of the Missouri wilderness and daughters of an iron-willed woman who buried four of her five children before the sisters were born. The eldest sister is a practical and outgoing business woman. Second is the beautiful, selfish and self-righteous farm wife. Third is the main character, and the fourth is the youngest sister, red-haired and impetuous, with the courage to leave an unsatisfactory husband after only a few months of marriage to follow a dream that will take her west and eventually to the booming 1920s cities of Singapore and Shanghai.The four sisters experience the ...
