Beskrivning
Five narratively consecutive stories about the same five women, set in five variant times and places; England in 1859; San Francisco on the eve of the 1906 earthquake; in Sinclair Lewis's fictional Zenith, Winnemac in 1923; London during the Blitz and in a small town in northern Mississippi in 1997. The book's climax is a dramatic collision of all five incarnations of the story.
