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A moving portrait of a young woman�s struggle to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution. It�s the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family�s sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather�s steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her�to forego education and marry well�but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up�the expansive world of late-1960s Radcliffe College and the intellectual, cultural, and sexual freedom Margot has been reaching for. Hailed for her �intelligent and heartfelt fiction� (Kirkus Reviews), Wendell Steavenson writes with grace, precision, and great psychological perception. With Margot, she has crafted a vivid portrayal of the quiet torment of young women of its era, a comically caustic mother-daughter story, and a memorable evocation of one woman�s passion for the wonder of science.