 Her third novel, "On the Stroll" (Knopf, 1981), takes on the themes of homelessness and abuse through the story of a shopping-bag lady and a teenage runaway who is preyed upon by a pimp, over the course of one summer.Her fourth novel, "In Every Woman's Life..." (Knopf, 1987), explores marriage, children, and singleness in a contemporary comedy of manners.After that, in her next three books, she turned to memoirs