First published 2014
Fin is eleven when his parents die in 1964. His glamorous half-sister Lady becomes his guardian, though he hasn't seen her in six years. She pulls him from his small Connecticut dairy farm to her Greenwich Village apartment in the heart of the Swinging Sixties. Lady is giddy and impulsive, with a parade of persistent suitors chasing after her. Fin quickly realizes that caring for his unpredictable sister might be as much work as she'll have caring for him. The siblings must figure out how to become a family while navigating the wild cultural changes of 1960s New York. Their unconventional household becomes the center of a story about two people learning to love and depend on each other in turbulent times.
Genres: fiction, romance, literary-fiction, 20th-century, coming-of-age, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Connecticut, Greenwich Village, New York
Period: 1964, 1960s
288 pages · Paperback · Picador