When nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris is kicked out of Vassar College in 1940, her parents send her to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant theater in Manhattan. There Vivian is swept up in an entire cosmos of charismatic characters. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it will lead her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves—and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it.
It will also lead to the love of her life. Now eighty-nine and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life.
