The Ladies' Lending Library, (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

This is the story of a beach community in the summer of 1963, the year Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, was released. The community of Kalyna Beach consists of Ukrainian first and second generation families. The women stay all summer at the beach and the men drive up from ...

from stonelaura

Canadian author Keefer has created an intricately woven story of one summer at a predominantly Ukrainian vacation lake. This particular summer the wives, who by turns are frustrated, depressed, resentful and wistful, are swept up with the new movie version of Cleopatra and the brewing love affair...

from picardyrose

Ladies in the '60s who take their kids to the shore for the summer and wait for their husbands to come out on weekends.

from Icepacklady

I picked up this book on sale on impulse, and I am so lost. I haven't even gotten halfway through it. I cannot keep up with all the names of the women and who their husbands are. Sometimes they are mentioned by first name, sometimes by last name. What happened to the 3 year old baby that fell? I ...

from micahmom2002

hard to follow characters and choppy language. stopped reading 1/4 through. Maybe will finish another time