What We Keep (Berg)

What We Keep
Elizabeth Berg, 1998
Random House
304 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780345423290

Summary
In this rich new novel by beloved author Elizabeth Bert, a reunion between two sisters and their mother reveals secrets and complexities in the lives of the women in a family.

Ginny Young is on a plane, going to visit the mother she hasn't seen or spoken to for thirty-five years. She thinks back to the summer of 1958, when she was twelve years old and a series of dramatic events divided her family, separating her and her sister from their mother, seemingly forever.

Moving back and forth in time between the girl she once was and the woman she's become, Ginny confronts painful choices in a woman's life—even as surprising secrets are revealed about the family she thought she understood. (From the publisher.)