The Ladies' Lending Library

In August of 1963, the women of Kalyna Beach prepare fortheir annual end-of-summer party. With their husbands awayin the city all week, the women’s days are ruled by the predictablerhythms of children and chores, and lightened by the “racy”books they trade amongst themselves and their Friday afternoonmeetings for gin and gossip. But this summer, everything willchange for the girls and women of Kalyna Beach, as they gain anew understanding of the possibilities open to them all.