{"product_id":"2940045999434","title":"Decade of Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecade of Change is a novel that follows five women from the west Chicago suburb of Park Heights, Illinois through the 1980's. Set against a backdrop of sex and politics,\u003cbr\u003eDecade of Change is an exploration of friendship, love, sex and heartache and its effect on five young women.\u003cbr\u003eThe five women, Delaney, D'Arco, Jillian Wendall, Claire Logan, Kate Bennett, and\u003cbr\u003eMedina Masters are very different women with a common bond-their commitment to each other. Yet they find as they grow older that you cannot always bring your childhood friends and dreams into the larger world around you. As the decade progresses, the friends struggle to hang onto their friendships out of loyalty to the past.\u003cbr\u003eAs the decade begins, Delaney and Kate are off to separate colleges where Delaney,\u003cbr\u003ealways open to sexual experiences, begins an affair with an older female professor. This affair allows Delaney to explore her sexuality which she does so frequently with both men and woman, never stopping for a moment to have a relationship with either sex.\u003cbr\u003eDelaney takes a job with the school newspaper that introduces her to the world of politics. It is the dynamics of writing and politics that drive Delaney and ultimately lead her to her career choice.\u003cbr\u003eAs for the other women, Kate Bennett quickly gets involved in a serious relationship with Gil Alexander. This relationship is the first threat to the circle of friends as Gil is an outsider. In Park Heights, Jillian Wendall throws herself into her job as she plans to make a career for herself at a local glass company where she has worked since high school.\u003cbr\u003eSexually repressed, Jillian shies away from dating. Claire's life moves into the fast lane after meeting Paul Fisher who introduces her to booze and drugs and a hard lifestyle.\u003cbr\u003eFinally, Medina Masters struggles to find herself, both professionally and personally as she jumps from one job and one relationship to another, all the while passing judgment on her friends, especially Delaney and Claire.\u003cbr\u003eIt is these early experiences that set the course for the heart of Decade of Change which is Delaney D'Arco. Delaney's bisexuality and politics both conflict with the conservatism of the 1980's. Delaney's sexual lifestyle serves as conflict as she struggles to maintain her friendships with the other women. Also, Delaney must deal with the growing feelings she has for Faith Porter and look inside herself to find what she needs to make the relationship last even if it means she may not be able to hold onto the friends he grew up with. It is Delaney's bisexuality and an incident with Medina that threatens to destroy the friendship forever until a devastating accident brings them all together. In the end, the friends must confront each other and all their feelings for one another and try one last time, on the eve of a new decade, to see if the women that they have become can salvage the friendship that grew from the girls that they had been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Denise Dugo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110503399664,"sku":"2940045999434","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045999434_p0.jpg?v=1763982077","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045999434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}