Laila Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can’t quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere.
When her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate’s suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious … devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.
Suddenly for Laila, it’s 1969 again. She’s only seventeen, and she’s left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam War, she’s tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.
Laila must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her conscience.
She learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.
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Just couldn’t really get into it. Gave up about half way through.
I really enjoyed this book right from the beginning. I graduated around the same time as the lead character and I could relate to time period, the music, the social issues and the news headlines. I did not like the abruptness to the ending of the book and the “Happily Ever After” ending, I found that a little hokey. All in all this was a good …
it was ok
This is a fun, quick read. I enjoyed the back and forth of a college girl’s past and the present day consequences with adult reflections.
I enjoyed the alternating story line of the past and the present.
Unlikely, implausible. Waste of time.
I thought it was great and definitely recomment it
Predictable and stereotyping
A step back to the 60s. Not really my cup of tea.
Boring, too dragged out. Too much fill in and uninteresting info.
Kinda hard to follow, as it jumped back and forth.
It kept me reading to find out how it was all going to end. I was annoyed along the way by the protagonist’s lack of good sense — but after all, not everyone is sensible, huh?
I must not have read the description very well. Not my kind of read. Lived through the 70s but not like this and not particularly interested in reading about this lifestyle. The main character is awesome at making terrible long-lasting bad decisions to haunt her in the future. I’ll finish it but not very enjoyable.
It takes us back to an interesting time when we were young and we thought drugs were cool.
The repeated bad decisions made by the main character may be realistic but I won’t have her as a friend. Even as an adult she still was making the same bad decisions.
Her adult situation seemed very contrived and really made no sense except as a tool in the …
I didn’t really like it. It got a little pat as you got into it.
Too many characters for me to keep me interested. so-so read
Couldn’t get through it.
This book was ok. The characters were interesting, but sometimes they just didn’t ring true. I was intrigued by the plot when I read the synopsis before getting the book, but it just didn’t live up to my expectations.
Poorly written, unable to suspend disbelief
I just found the main character waaaaaaaaaay to naive even for a 17 year old college kid