What a beautiful and honest memoir!I thoroughly enjoyed every page and thank the author for sharing her life stories so freely!

I read this book from cover to cover without putting it down once! Matthau lived and shared the story of a life that young girls from Texas only dream of. I loaned my copy of this book-mistake!- and now learn it is out of print. Please consider printing more. Those stories are as close as most of us will ever get to the privileged existence of Carol, her friends and lovers and to experience, vicariously, the glamour and excitement of that "stardusted" New York City.

This is a fascinating book about three fascinating women who had been best friends since childhood. One woman, Gloria Vanderbilt, has a reputation that speaks for itself. Oona is the daughter of Eugene O'Neill, and she married Charlie Chaplin, who was decades older than she was. They had a long and happy marriage, and many children together. Carol Matthau's first husband was William Saroyan, and she is the mother of the author. After a disastrous first marriage, she married Walter Matthau before he was either rich or famous. Collectively, the three young women personified the concept of synergy, of one plus one plus one adding up to much more than simply three. They all were the debutantes of Cafe Society in New York in that happy moment just after the end of World War II, the favorites of the gossip columns of that era. Aram Saroyan has written a touching valentine to his mother and her best friends.

I'm just about finished with this book and it's fascinating. The book starts with the three girls as teenager's and you soon realize that these famous women are very human just like the rest of us. They deal with love, relationships, children, and careers. Granted, they started out on a higher monetary level (for the most part) and associated and socialized with the more privileged, but their fears, woes, etc. were the same as anyones.