Something beyond paradise

By Jan Slepian

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, Grandmothers, Fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Hawaii, fiction, Cults, Mothers and daughters

Description: Reluctantly tied in Hawaii to an unhappy mother and a grandmother with a fading memory, Franny, age 17, longs for a dance career, and when her friend Akiko joins a group promising instant bliss, and she herself meets an actor from New York, the developing events, while frightening and dangerous, finally show her a way to fulfill her ambition.