A tender, sexy, often funny exploration of intimate, loving relationships in twentieth century America. Small Lives is the interwoven stories of two immigrant families, the Sullivans and the Katz. It covers a period from an outbreak of the plague in 1890's Poland, through the Great Depression and World War II to the turbulent 1960s. Highlights include: . An unplanned wedding night in a Victorian boarding house in a bedroom full of false teeth . A failed WW II intelligence gathering mission in the Egyptian desert . A seduction that ends with unexpected consequences . A brother and sister who have been emotionally abandoned by their wealthy parents . A Main Line Philadelphia pool party that turns into an orgy . A Jewish father who lights candles to St. 'Juda' to find his daughter a husband . A physically flawed woman offers a spoiled prospective husband a dowry to win his love For most of his adult life Jac Simensen lived in Asia, Europe and the U.K working in...

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