Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long well into September Often peoples lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a storyThe matriarch Maisie Pringle is a force to be reckoned with Her daughter Liz is caught up in the classic maelstrom of middle age And Lizs beautiful twenty-something daughter Ashley and her dreamy ambitions for the future keep them all at oddsAshleys brother Ivy is her fierce champion but he cant do much from San Francisco where he resides with his partner And even Mary Beth her dearest friend cant talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with an ambitious politicianWhile Ashley and Mary Beth wait for the world to deliver them from a ramen-based existence they come up with a harebrained scheme to make money that could land them in huge troubleWith her scintillating wit and crisp insight Frank captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation.
