Coming Out: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a wayof managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twindaughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from hersecond marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Untilone sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend themost exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around ’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profoundsnobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend.

ForOlympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blooddebutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees– while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfectopportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son,Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life–and may need his mother more despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through theevent until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarmingspeed.

From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak, from a case of the chickenpox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family,friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamityinto an evening of old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and newtraditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation,acceptance, and love.

In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, andwarmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family–finding newways of letting go, stepping up, and coming the ways that matter most.