First published 2020
Eleanor Allen stands in her San Francisco mansion in 1928, admiring the exquisite wedding dress that just arrived from a prestigious Parisian design house. She has no idea that this gown will become her family's most treasured heirloom, passed down through four generations of women who will face vastly different worlds. The stock market crash of 1929 strips away the family's wealth, forcing Eleanor's descendants into cramped apartments after lives of luxury. Her daughter confronts the devastation of war, while her granddaughter navigates the turbulent drug culture of the 1960s. Each woman who wears the dress marries a different kind of man, from inherited wealth to self-made success. As Silicon Valley transforms their world once again, the fourth generation must decide what traditions matter most. Through financial ruin and recovery, social upheaval and personal tragedy, the wedding dress remains the one constant that binds these women together across the decades.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-saga, generational-saga
Setting: San Francisco
Period: 1920s, 1929, 1960s
304 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press