New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of an almost life-long friendship between two women. Although one lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and the other in East Texas, it seemed that their lives moved in tandem - until they both lost their husbands the same year, and that illusion is shattered. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-679-415394.