The Perfect Age

Helen is just fifteen, lanky and striking. She is a lifeguard at the pool at The Dunes hotel this summer--her first job, a step toward independence in a world beginning to treat her as an adult and a woman. Her mother, Kathy, watching Helen grow up, suddenly finds herself in a place equally uncertain: her children getting older, her stable marriage perhaps too stable, the slow days of summer leaving her adrift. When she meets Helen's boss, the manager at the pool, she chooses an affair that opens her to the idea of a different sort of life. Following Helen and Kathy through three summers, this novel is an intimate picture of two sexual awakenings under one roof and their aftershocks on a family. Heather Skyler shows us that the validity of life's deepest experiences--love, betrayal, acceptance--is never compromised by age. Reading group guide included.

Author: Heather Skyler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/2005
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.62w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780393326888
Revised Edition

About the Author
Skyler, Heather: - Heather Skyler was born and raised in Las Vegas. The author of The Perfect Age and Vegas Girls, she currently lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, son, and daughter.