Judith Kirscht

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Myra Benning gazes across the meadow to the sea and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands beyond, unbelieving that she, awkward daughter of the Minnesota prairie, could have ended up in such a place-and with a successful husband and two golden children to boot. Little does she know, her golden world is about to collapse. Faced with her husband's infidelity, she makes decisions that, instead of saving her family, carry it into deeper waters, unearthing secrets and shame beneath the idyllic Benning family surface. She is faced with making decisions in the murky world where there is no certainty. What happened? What is imagined and what real? Who is guilty and of what?