The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive,
affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women
swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even
suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com
face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of
their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving
hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.