The stories of 23 generations of American women whose first names begin with L continue the final installment of The Chair Pentalogy. They include a Revolutionary War cannoneer, a sidewalk clown, a bottled-water magnate, a frontier woman, a choreographer, a Union army uniform designer, a lover of umbrellas, a wealthy horseracing gambler, and an immortal time-traveler. The Armistice is signed, a French sub goes lost in the South Pacific,...