1975. This was a great book. Mostly takes place in 1948 when the protagonist Sarah "Sally" Stern is 13. Her mother and step-father are killed in a plane crash. She's been rich, living in the E. 70s in New York City, and going to private school. Living with a Calder mobile, a Degas and a Braques and other great art that gets donated to the MOMA and the Met when her parents die. They were German Jews, trying to assimilate as much as possible. They belonged to a club that held a Christmas party every years and didn't accept Russian Jews. Sally gets sent to live with her step-father's best friend's family in Brookline, Mass. They are Russian Jews, and not wealthy, although they are now that they have Sally and her half brother, Roger, to take care of. Sally learns what it's like to have family from them. Her socialite mother and playboy, gentile father, had no emotional capacity, so she had been rich, but lonely. It is a great look at class distinctions, and family. ( )

One of my favorite 70's novels. In fact one of the first I reread after I retired in 2007, and I still liked it, although it doesn't have the genius of Margaret Atwood, whom I also read in the 1970's/ ( )