6 Juicy Novels to Read Poolside

Young, Irish and idealistic, Nora and Theresa Flynn cross the Atlantic to start their new lives in Boston. Nora is 21, practical and engaged to be married to a young man from her village. Theresa is only 17—romantic, outspoken and ready to sway in the arms of strangers who frequent the late-night dances "that felt like magic." Fifty years later, the two are not speaking and Nora's oldest child has died in a drunken driving accident. What happens in between is full of complexity and richly imagined history about the women's lives, revealing the power and pain of the past.