During her summer in California, she becomes embroiled in tensions between her father, who attempts to gain custody, when Alison Rose's mother is found to be lesbian. Caroline has a sexual relationship with her chemistry teacher.Īlison Rose, 15, daughter of divorced parents, and her older brother Martin visit her father and stepmother in Northern California for the summer after spending the school year in New York with her mother, Cynthia. Two high school seniors from single-parent households, Caroline and Maggie, explore sexuality and the changing role of women in the world. During their relationship, she has a liaison with an ex-boyfriend, and she begins to understand the complex interrelationship between love and sex. Jody Epstein, a New York native and senior in high school, begins dating Lyle, a Midwesterner with a more conservative background. She wrote many novels for children and young adults including Family Secrets, which has been challenged for inclusion in school libraries, and is ranked at #76 on the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books for 1990-1999. Klein's work dealt openly with controversial subjects, including racism, homosexuality, adoption, and death. She was also well known for her children's novel Mom, the Wolfman and Me about a girl with an unmarried mother. Klein was best known for her adult novel Sunshine, about a young woman with terminal cancer, which was based upon a true story, and taken from the young woman's tape-recorded diary. She had a husband, Erwin Fleissner, and two daughters.
She died, after a brief illness, in New York City on April 25, 1989, at the age of 50. She was born, grew up and lived in New York City for most of her life, and studied Russian at Barnard College. Norma Klein (– April 25, 1989) was a US young adults' book author.
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