Coming Out

Coming Out by Danielle Steel Olympia Crawford Rubinstein
has a busy legal career a solid marriage and a way of
managing her thriving family with grace humor and
boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high
school a son at Dartmouth and a kindergartner from her
second marriage there seems to be no challenge to which
Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May when she
opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most
exclusive coming-out ball in New York–-and chaos erupts
all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the
other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism
is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal
to attend. For Olympia’s husband Harry whose parents
survived the Holocaust the idea of a blue-blood debutante
ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica a natural-born
rebel agrees–-while Veronica’s identical twin Virginia is
already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s
Olympia’s ex an insufferable snob who sees the ball as the
perfect opportunity 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
than ever. But despite it all Olympia is determined to
steer her family through the event until just days before
the cotillion things begin to unravel with alarming speed.
From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak from a case
of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her
household Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And 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 calamity into an evening of
magic. As old wounds are healed barriers are shattered and
new traditions 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 and warmly
funny Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary
family–-finding new ways of letting go stepping up and
coming out…in the ways that matter most.