She recalled that once when Rosemary had bought a cotton skirt with L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! Printed all over it, their father made her return it to the store. While the MacLanes like Captain Greg well enough and think he has good career prospects (he’s studying for his teaching certification and moonlighting at Berkeley’s radiation laboratory, “where they smash atoms”), Rosemary has also long been regarded as kind of a dingbat by her family what if this engagement is just another screwball impulse of hers? The Plot: High school Junior Barbara’s MacLane and her entire lower-middle class family’s life is upended when her sister Rosemary, a freshman at Berkeley, announces her engagement to a former Air Force Captain eight years her senior.
And, delightfully, this coming of age story set in the San Francisco suburbs is notable for the fact that THE SIXTIES are definitely coming! Sister of the Bride was the last of the four to be published, and the only one after 1960.
Does our centenarian national treasure really need an introduction? Probably not, but maybe her early Young Adult novels do! Beverly Cleary’s YA romances from the 1950s are less well-known than her later works featuring Henry Huggins and the Quimby sisters, although they have been consistently in print for nearly 60 years: Fifteen, The Luckiest Girl, Jean and Johnny and Sister of the Bride were all reissued by Dell in the 1980s as part of their Young Love series, and in subsequent editions with increasingly dull cover art.
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