When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to ha
ve much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with n
o mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Ir
is and Eva become one another's family. Iris wants to be a movie star; Eva is he
r sidekick.
Together, they journey across 1940s America from scandal in Holly
wood to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island, stumbling, cheating a
nd loving their way through a landscape of war, betrayals and big dreams.
