Coney Island in Winter | Lexiphane.com

Born at the start of the 20th century, Lily Smith is a hardscrabble daughter of the West. As she grows, she will become a horse breaker, an elementary school teacher, a bootlegger, a rancher, a mother, and eventually a grandmother to the woman who's writing her story. ..... His journey brings him to a hotel they once shared, a successful actor he went to grade school with, and a 13-year-old girl with pathologically bad parents [one of whom is a simulacrum of the author]. ...