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Four years ago, Jonell McLain saw a diamond necklace in a jewelry store window. The necklace aroused desire first, then a provocative question: What if we shared what we desired? Several weeks, dozens of phone calls, and a leap of faith later, Jonell bought the necklace with twelve other women. With vastly dissimilar histories and lives, the women transcended their individual personalities and politics to join together in an uncommon journey. Part charm, part metaphor, part mirror, the necklace weaves in and out of each woman's life, and comes to mean something dramatically different to each of them. What started as a quirky social experiment became something far richer and deeper, as the women transformed a symbol of exclusivity into a symbol of inclusiveness. They discovered that sharing the necklace was only the beginning: the more they shared with others, the more profound this experience became.--From publisher description., It began as a simple experiment in shared wealth: 13 women pooled their resources to buy a luxurious $37,000 diamond necklace that they would each get to posses for four weeks out of the year. However, as the years passed, the women's lives and experiences became increasingly intertwined despite their wildly varied backgrounds, and the necklace began to take on powerfully different meanings in each woman's mind. In this fascinating true account of an experiment that became a unique and surprising life journey, journalist Cheryl Jarvis tracks the evolution of a piece of jewelry, and finds inspirational richness in her 13 female heroines who transformed something meant to be exclusive and elite into an unexpected source of community.
| Size | | Length: | 210 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
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