A Day in the Life of Three Women: Clarissa Vaughan strolls through the streets of New York on a bright June morning. It is the vibrant New York of the late 1990s. Clarissa is on her way to buy flowers for a party she is hosting that evening for her friend Richard, who is suffering from AIDS and has just received a significant literary award. They have known each other for decades and were briefly a couple. Richard gave her the nickname Mrs. Dalloway because she reminds him of the heroine from Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name. Laura Brown is married to a war veteran who is devotedly attentive to her, and her young son loves her dearly; she is pregnant for the second time. However, the life of a housewife in a suburb of Los Angeles is suffocating her. On a day in 1949, she escapes from her daily responsibilities, rents a room in a hotel, and...