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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Fast reading book.
Utterly addictive! This book is masterfully written and I lost a lot of sleep because I did not want to stop reading it. It jumps back to the protagonist‘s life in the 60‘s and I really felt pulled into that time period. There is also a great mystery and some really shady characters that you learn to loathe.
If you were a teenager or college student in the 60s, you will enjoy and relate to the characters in this book. Great read!
As a child of the 60s, I found the flashbacks to the 60s subculture interesting. Took me awhile to understand the word play on ‘Long Guyland’ and don’t think that was necessarily a good title for the book.
Highly recommend!
Somewhat difficult to follow, kept going back and forward in time.
Loved it!
I loved this book! The sarcasm is fun!
For those of us who grew up in that era it was trip down memory lane even if one was not part of the drug culture.
Great read with the exception of the locker room language.
The way it was in the 70’s. Authentic.
A life changing event in the 70s follows the characters through their adult lives, threatening to destroy them. The characters develop but only seem to become more of what they always were. No great character arcs, no great lessons to be learned, but the story does come full circle. More like a fluffy beach read.
Some of it was a little hard to believe. But it was easy to read.
Well developed characters. I could see a young inexperienced girl fall into this ongoing nightmare.
Wonderful read!
Story had me from go,twists and turns abound,and I got a weird sense of dejavu having grown up in the Age of Aquarius!!
I don’t often give reviews, but this is the perfect book to take to the beach for a bit of lazy reading on the blanket.
I loved this book. I think I already rated it somewhere but I’ll do it again. I’m going to look for more books from this author if here other books are this good she has a fan.
I loved it !! 🙂
An interesting story…well written… very very realistic…
Just couldn’t relate to much in this story. I grew up during the 60s-70s, but a lot of that part of the tale just isn’t very realistic. Shallow characters, slow plot.