by Rebecca Irving (Author)

Katharine Epstein, a sixty-one year old woman, has lived her life in the lap of luxury. Her father was a successful attorney and her mother was from a prominent Protestant American family. She has two sisters, Phebe and Gloria. Katharine fell in love with a handsome Jewish medical student, Laurence Epstein, when she was in her late teens and ultimately married him. She converted to Judaism. Laurence