Juno's Daughters
A Novel
Lise Saffran
- Love
- takes
- center
- stage
- when
- a
- single
- mother
- and
- her
- teenage
- daughters
- play
- Juno,
- Iris
- and
- Ceres
- in
- a
- summer
- production
- of
- The
- Tempest.Jenny
- Alexander
- has
- sought
- refuge
- from
- a
- troubled
- past
- on
- a
- tiny,
- verdant
- island,
- off
- the
- coast
- of
- Washington
- state.
- Surrounded
- by
- the
- cold
- water
- of
- the
- Puget
- Sound,
- she
- does
- her
- best
- to
- raise
- her
- girls,
- innocent
- Frankie,
- and
- thrill-seeking
- Lilly,
- in
- a
- tight-knit
- community
- of
- eccentrics
- and
- dreamers.The
- island
- bursts
- open
- each
- summer
- with
- the
- arrival
- of
- actors
- leading
- the
- annual
- Shakespeare
- production.
- A
- handsome
- thespian
- from
- New
- York
- reawakens
- Jenny
- to
- long-buried
- desires.
- As
- the
- intensity
- of
- rehearsals
- builds
- toward
- the
- live
- run
- of
- The
- Tempest,
- a
- potent
- mixture
- of
- actors,
- islanders
- and
- tourists,
- besotted
- by
- verse
- and
- swept
- up
- in
- the
- romance
- of
- the
- theater,
- spills
- the
- enchantment
- of
- the
- play
- into
- the
- lives
- of
- the
- players.When
- Jenny
- finds
- her
- daughters
- caught
- up
- in
- a
- "brave
- new
- world"
- of
- love
- and
- heartbreak,
- she
- is
- ultimately
- thrust
- into
- a
- command
- performance
- that
- will
- resonate
- in
- all
- their lives.
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