Fin & Lady

From bestselling author Cathleen Schine comes Fin & Lady a wise clever story of New York in the ''60s.It''s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous worldly older half sister Lady have just been orphaned and Lady whom Fin hasn''t seen in six years is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village smack in the middle of the swinging ''60s. He soon learns that Lady-giddy careless urgent and obsessed with being free-is as much his responsibility as he is hers.So begins Fin & Lady the lively spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the ''60s the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War-Lady pursued by ardent dogged suitors Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.From a writer The New York Times has praised as sparkling crisp clever deft hilarious and deeply affecting Fin & Lady is a comic romantic love story: the story of a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in increasingly unconventional times.