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The Marks family is a tightly-knit quartet of women. Jane is the affluent matriarch whose 3 daughters seem to have nothing in common except for a peculiar sort of idealism.
Setting the tone of vanity and inscurity, Jane is undergoing cosmetic surgery to alter her figure, but serious complications put her health in real danger. Former homecoming queen Michelle, the eldest daughter, has one daughter of her own and an alienated, unsupportive husdband.
Elizabeth, the middle sister, has an acting cateer that is beginning to take off, but is ttimid and inscure, and habitully relieves her trepidation by taking in stray dogs.
Only the youngest sister, Annie an adopted African American 8-year-old, stands a chance of avoiding the family legacy of anxious self-absorption. If only herinteligence and curiosity will see her through what promises to be a confusing adolesence. Each of the women seeks redemtion in her own haphazard way.
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