it's warm and it now I was set in Vermont village 1970 opens the deeper stories of three women slaves through the door of their friendship with each other. there is Elizabeth the energetic mother of five who has a shock of her hometown by walking out on her lawyer husband. there is Claire a painter her mother of two teenage daughters who looks at herself her husband and her friends with unwavering honesty. and join us is Anna put college professor who is becoming beginning to realize she loves another woman. they growth individually and there can correctness brings startling different changes in each woman's life like life this book follows unpredicted passages. I felt like I was all those women three nearly mythical components of the self I like their placement in the kitchen often and near home or children or animals they are all very strong women Linda Hogan