Best Friends

Clare, from a working-class Protestant family, has never met anyone like Sally: wealthy, pretty, and Jewish, barely emancipated from her close-knit Los Angeles family. Over the decades, Clare is drawn deeper into the circle of Sally's family-until she uncovers the kind of secret that no one wants to tell a best friend.

Author Biography: Martha Moody is a physician. Her short story, Like the Arrival of Angels, was a finalist for the Best American Short Stories of 1985. This is her first novel.