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Katherine Pierson, raised in the isolation of a Mississippi River town & educated in a convent school, careens into adulthood when she marries a man twelve years her senior. Nothing in her sheltered past prepares her for marriage, the responsibilities of motherhood & the slow death of her warm, intelligent, spirited self. And when she finally has the opportunity for a passion she's never known, nothing prepares her for the choices facing her. Can a woman give equally to her children, her lover & herself - or must she make a choice among them