The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide...The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the hoods and the williamses, come face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives - in a novel w the year is 1973.