The Room-Mating Season

The masterful author of The Best of Everything takes us through a season of friendship, discovery, betrayal, and love to tell a story of four friends and the events that shaped their futures. New York in 1963 is a place of infinite possibilities, especially when you're young and eager for the adventure a big city offers. Leigh, Cady, Vanessa, and Susan meet when they become roommates on the Upper East Side.
Nothing can diminish the exhilaration of their newfound freedom and independence-even being crammed together in a single bedroom with a kitchen too small for a table and chairs. A casting assistant at a talent agency, Leigh is the level-headed one. Cady is a prep school teacher, emotional, passionate, and ready for love. Vanessa, a stewardess, craves her independence above all else. Susan is the mercurial, difficult one, and after one confrontation too many, makes a choice that will change the course of all their lives.PRAISE FOR RONA JAFFE"Reading Rona Jaffe is like being presented with a Cartier watch: you know exactly what you're getting and it's exactly what you want."-Cosmopolitan"Vivid and trenchant.Wry and very readable.A minor genius."-New York Times Book Review"Jaffe has not lost her wit, her keen eye for human frailties and her ear for the small but telling remark."-Publishers Weekly