The Sunshine Girls

A breathtaking story of an extraordinary friendship and the transcendent power of a mothers love. Molly Fader has penned an unforgettable novel that is sure to be one of the years best. Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil

A moment of great change sparks the friendship of a lifetime

1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty dont have much in common. A farmers daughter, BettyKay has risked her familys disapproval to make her dreams come true away from her small rural town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a devastating secret from the past that she cant seem to outrun. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely, powerful bond on a campus unkind to women.

Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes, and the womens paths are forced apart. But against all odds, a decades-long friendship forms, persevering through love, marriage, failure and death, from the jungles of Vietnam to the glamorous circles of Hollywood. Until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads.

Fifty years later, two estranged sisters are shocked when a famous movie star shows up at their mother's funeral. Over one tumultuous weekend, the women must reckon with a dazzling truth about their family that will alter their lives forever