02695cam a2200409 i 4500 1066232160 TxAuBib 20231207120000.0 231025s2023||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2023944183 9781638089452 1638089450 (OCoLC)1405896555 TxAuBib rda Benjamin, Melanie, author. California golden [large print] / Melanie Benjamin. Large print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023. ©2023. 471 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Delacorte Press. Includes author's note with background information. "Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky a Go Go. In an era when women are expected to be housewives, Carol Donnelly breaks the mold as a legendary female surfer struggling to compete in a male-dominated sport -- and her daughters, Mindy and Ginger, bear the weight of Carol's unconventional lifestyle. The Donnelly sisters grow up enduring their mother's absence -- physically, when she's at the beach, and emotionally, the rare times she's at home. To escape questions about Carol's whereabouts -- and to chase her elusive affection -- they cut school to spend their days in the surf. From her first time on a board, Mindy is a natural, but Ginger, two years younger, feels out of place in the water. As they grow up and their lives diverge, Mindy and Ginger's relationship ebbs and flows. Mindy finds herself swept up in celebrity, complete with beachside love affairs, parties at the Playboy Club, and a USO tour in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Ginger, desperate for a community of her own, is tugged into the dangerous counterculture of drugs and cults. But through it all, their sense of duty to each other survives, as the girls are forever connected by the emotional damage they carry from their unorthodox childhood."-- Provided by publisher. 20231207. Sisters Fiction. Women surfers United States Fiction. Surfers United States Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Nineteen sixties Fiction. Historical fiction. Large print books. California, Southern History 20th century Fiction. United States History 1961-1969 Fiction.