Destined to be a classic.. .a sharply funny clear-eyed examination in the vein of Mary Mc Carthys The Group of the power & burden of privilege the reality of being a modern woman & the lasting bonds of female friendship.
- Vanity Fair Can a weekend change your life? Clover Addison Mia & Jane were college roommates until their graduation in 1989. Now twenty years later their lives are in free fall. Clover once a securities broker with Lehman Brothers living the Manhattan dream is out of a job newly married & fretting about her chances of having a baby. Addisons marriage to a novelist with writers block is as stale as her artistic career. Mias acting ambitions never got off the ground & she now stays home with her four children renovating & acquiring faster than her Hollywood director husband can pay the bills. Jane once the Paris bureau chief for a newspaper now the victim of budget cuts has been blindsided by different sorts of loss. The four friends have kept up with one another via the red book a class report published every five years in which alumni write brief updates about their lives. But theres the story we tell the world & then theres the real story as the classmates arriving at their twentieth reunion with their families their histories their dashed dreams & secret longings will discover over the course of an epoch-ending score-settling unforgettable weekend.