Set in Vermont and "tracking the changes that come with the turning of the seasons--and decades--and signaling the dawning of a new freedom as Katey [Snow] moves out into a world in flux, Before We Sleep is a novel about family, about family secrets, and about the love that holds families together. It is also about the Greatest Generation as it moves into the very different era of the 1960s, and about the trauma of war that so profoundly weighed on both generations