First Women and Children

An engaging literary puzzle consisting of stories of ten women living in a small town in Massachusetts. Jane, Natalie, Lila, Mona, Marina... Each of them is a whole world, containing everything: complicated relationships with parents, partners, and children, difficulties of... female socialization, insurmountable dependencies, unfulfilled ambitions, love. Olivia, Ray, Maureen, Sophia, Brinn - what connects them together, apart from the dull town where a schoolgirl once died under unclear circumstances at a party?
The writer brilliantly explores the question: how do love, guilt, and loss intertwine? And is it a good life strategy to hide one's feelings, since none of us walk this earth alone?