California Golden: A Novel Melanie Benjamin It begins centuries before America

It begins centuries before America even exists as a nation

“The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets

featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty

They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her

Set in the fraught summer of 2016

California Golden: A Novel Melanie Benjamin It begins centuries before AmericaTwo sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviators Wife. A shimmering rendering . . . pairs the surf culture of the Beach Boys with the sex, drugs, and rock n roll of Daisy Jones & The Six.Entertainment Weekly (Best Books of the Summer) Southern California, 1960s: