OTHER MEN'S DAUGHTERS

Until the day of Merriwethers departure from the housea month after his divorcethe Merriwether family looked like an ideally tra nquil one we read on the first page of Other Mens Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, ar e full of long-haired hippies decked out in colorful garb, but Dr. Robert Merriwether, who teaches at Harvard and has been married f or a good long time, hardly takes note. Learned, curious, thoughtful, and a creature of habit, Merriwether is anything but an impuls ive man, and y...[Read more]