"It's 1997\, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother's body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral\, followed by a rau cous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star: Susan Bliss. Fifteen years earlier\, Susan is a blazing\, beautiful young woman\, passionate about he r art. \;It's impossible not to fall in love with her\, and so Alcott\ , a practical professor\, does-hopelessly. And so begins the love story of Susan's two-paneled life: an unconventional\, jetlag-filled arrangement t hat takes her back and forth between her life in New England as a wife and mother to young twins to the bright lights of Los Angeles\, where she bec omes the beloved star of a daytime soap. In the present\, Susan's twins gr ow up in the shadow of her all-consuming absence. Sebastian\, a sensitive artist\, cleaves to her memory\, fascinated with the artifacts of her star ry past - old script notes\, photographs\, tabloid gossip columns - while Viola\, resentful of her mother's torn allegiances\, distances herself fro m the memories of a mother too caught up in her silly dreams to be present for her children. But when Viola runs into her mother's old friend and co -star Orson Grey - now a renowned Hollywood star - she finds herself falli ng deeply in love with him and begins to put together the pieces of a moth er she never really knew."--Provided by publisher. \;
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