I read this book after a listserv I subscribe to recommended great road trip books. There's nothing I love more than a good road trip, and this one sounded interesting. It was, a little too sentimental for my taste at times, but all in all not bad. Theresa is a young woman working in New York, trying to become a set designer for the theater. In the meantime, to pay the bills, she's working at a department store. She's also in a tepid relationship with a man named Richard. One busy day at work she meets an attractive woman named Carol, and her whole life changes. She and Carol start meeting up to talk, and Theresa blows off plans with Richard on the off chance Carol might call and want her to visit. Carol is in the middle of a nasty divorce, and custody of her daughter is at stake. Even so, she invites Theresa to come along on a cross country road trip. Carol's ex-husband, Harge, sends a private detective after them to gather evidence of Carol's "unnatural" affair with Theresa (it was first published in 1952). In order to not be completely cut off from her daughter, Carol agrees to cut off all ties with Theresa.
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