Seventh Heaven — Alice Hoffman

In SEVENTH HEAVEN, Alice Hoffman takes us to a typical suburban community in the typical suburban decade of the 1950s to explore what happens when Nora Silk comes to town.

Nora is extraordinary. Strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious, she is determined to raise her two children without a husband, willing to take love where she finds it--a woman whose liberated spirit foreshadows the decade ahead. Everyone in town is touched by her, and in the mirror of her magnetism, people see themselves as never before. With Nora's courageous image before them, they begin to ask themselves questions they had never asked--finding answers they had never dared to imagine....