Five Women
By Rona Jaffe
1997
First Published
3.41
Average Rating
480
Number of Pages
Five women who have survived their troubled pasts meet regularly at the Yellowbird restaurant-bar and relate the story of their lives, friendships, and betrayals while also becoming friends and allies and betrayers of one another.
Avg Rating
3.41
Number of Ratings
333
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
14%
1 STARS
5%
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Author
Rona Jaffe
Author · 14 books
Rona Jaffe established The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards program in 1995. It is the only national literary awards program of its kind dedicated to supporting women writers exclusively. Since the program began, the Foundation has awarded more than $850,000 to a total of 92 women. Ms. Jaffe was the author of sixteen books, including Class Reunion, Family Secrets, The Road Taken, and The Room-Mating Season (2003). Her 1958 best-selling first novel, The Best of Everything, was reissued by Penguin in 2005.
