Cecile, Norma, and Amanda are three women who "met in school and have been inseparable ever since. ... Then something unexpected happens that forever alters their long, complicated friendship. ... And in the months that follow, each of them will look at their families, their lives--and one another--differently."--Jacket.

The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.