; 23 oz.; 266 pages; HC w/DJ 1st ED read once spine lean story very clean/tight 1999 Alfred A Knopf. Jo Becker, a happily married middle-aged woman, finds virtually every aspect of her stability threatened when an old friend named Eli Mayhew comes to town. Eli reminds Jo of her life as a counterculture free spirit in the '60s, when the murder of her best friend--still unsolved--shattered Jo's life. Now, 30 years later, Jo finds that old issues remain, and she must make decisions that will affect not only herself but her family.