'Destined to be a classic . . . a sharply
funny, clear-eyed examination, in the vein of Mary
McCarthy's The Group, of the power and burden of
privilege, the reality of being a modern woman and the
lasting bonds of female friendship.' Vanity
Fair Can a weekend change your life? Clover,
Addison, Mia and 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 and fretting about her chances of
having a baby. Addison's marriage to a novelist with
writers' block is as stale as her artistic 'career'.
Mia's acting ambitions never got off the ground, and she
now stays home with her four children, renovating and
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
there's the story we tell the world, and then there's
the real story, as the classmates arriving at their
twentieth reunion with their families, their histories,
their dashed dreams and secret longings, will discover
over the course of an epoch-ending, score-settling,
unforgettable weekend.
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