Abstract:
Part memoir, part cultural history of the 1940s and ‘50s, SANDY PATHS takes writer Sandra Carpenter through the angst of growing up in the U.S. postwar period, through early marriage and family, to success in coming to terms with women’s new role of the late Twentieth Century.

This sequence of vignettes on a California Girl coming of age evokes with memorable intensity the exquisite joys, pains, and mysteries of youth. Begun in a working-class Los Angeles ‘40s neighborhood, this warm tale intertwining families of Green, Holt, Carpenter, revolves around America’s Hollywood-dream state of the west.