Everything you need to understand or teach Caroline's Daughters by Alice Adams.
The real subject of Caroline's Daughters is the American landscape in the 1980s and its effects on those who came to maturity in it. Adams examines life in that gilded age through the perspective of a mother and her five daughters, their secrets and distances, and their concurrent desire for separation and connectedness. Characters are always conscious of their particular place in history—their past, and its role...