**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this moving, poignant novel by the
bestselling author of Birds of America--and a master of American
fiction--we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness
of her youth.
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"An enchanting novel." --The New York Times
The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at
Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the
beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They
spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they
followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small town
life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor
from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to
escape any real danger--until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really
does need her help--and then everything changes.