SOLVED. Characters: Cricket and Vliet [s]

[Jackie]

Blue paperback. I don't remember much about this one, except that Cricket and Vliet are cousins and she has a crush on him. Vliet has a brother but I can't remember his name.
I figure the character names are unique enough that if some read it, they might remember the Title and Author.

[April Ann]

Was it one of the books in the Van Vliet Series? Paloverde or Rich Friends by Jacquline Briskin.

[Jackie]

I cannot find a synopsis of Rich Friends except to say it spans 30 years in the lives of Em and Caroline Van Vliet in California.
I don't remember a Caroline, and Vliet is the cousin's first name. I'm not sure where it's set.
I read it so long ago that I hardly remember anything about it.

[April Ann]

Here's a review of Rich Friends

Kirkus Reviews A double-decker California Generation (1970) which starts with three girls who marry at roughly the same time. They, of course, used to worry about whether they "petted above" or "below the waist" before it all becomes academic. Em and Caroline are granddaughters of the Van Vliet supermarket fortune; Beverly however is Jewish--something that makes her feel marked for judgment, confirmed by the death of her only son. On to her daughter Alix, most beautiful, and Alix's love for one of Em's male twins, the handsome medical student Roger who makes an also-ran of his brother Vliet Reed in all areas; while Cricket, daughter of Caroline, has a baby fathered by Vliet Reed in one of those freaked-out Mansonesque communes which leads to the human hamburger tartare at the close. . . . The market? Well, it's Peyton Placed somewhere between that other Jacqueline and Jeannie Sakol's New Year's Eve--one of those books which is most downable if you're directed by appetite rather than taste.
(Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 1976)

[Jackie]

Yes, it does sound like it!
Thanks!

[Rainbowheart]

Rich Friends for the trackable link.

[Kris]

Jackie, I see your request is marked Solved. Glad you found your book.