The Invisible Circus Unabridged edition

In Jennifer Egans highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe OConnor. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faiths life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europea quest that yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faiths lost generation.