Brown Eyes Blue: A Novel - Hardcover

Dorcas herself is off balance, however. She has recently broken up with a man she planned to marry, she is disenchanted with teaching, and she is ripe for change. She moves back to Juniata to renovate a run-down house, open a bed-and-breakfast there, and try to build a new life. Soon Dorcas's life is further complicated by the arrival of her daughter, Sasha, from California, with some surprising revelations of her own.

Alternating between Dorcas's and Lavinia's points of view, the reader learns the long-buried story behind Lavinia's nude paintings, Dorcas's own secret of Sasha's origins, and the chances that Dorcas will make a go of her new life.

"Brown Eyes Blue" speaks to women of all ages. Middle-aged women who are still struggling to get along with their hypercritical mothers and their difficult daughters will relate to Dorcas's story; mothers of a certain age will find themselves portrayed as vital and creative, their creativity fueled by a rich trove of memories; and daughters seeking their own independent paths will discover they're not the first in the family to forge new rules.