The Merry Merry Maidens

341 pp. The story traces the lives of six high school girlfriends from 1917, told through the memories of one. It is now twenty years later, and she is a middle class Bronx housewife. One girl has become a world-famous actress; another is a frustrated concert singer who finds fulfillment in teaching music; one is a "boyfriend stealer" who lives to regret her actions; another marries a Russian engineer and "finds satisfaction in being solemn about the future of the Soviet Union" and of course there is a career woman....