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Voice
April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
347 pages
ISBN: 1401340822
EAN: 9781401340827
Kindle: B007250EN4
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Literature and Fiction
The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan’s
wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close
circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion. Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard
until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled on a
commune by mixed-race parents, felt woefully out of place.
Addison yearned to shed the burden of her Mayflower
heritage. Mia mined the depths of her suburban ennui to
enact brilliant performances on the Harvard stage. Jane, an
adopted Vietnamese war orphan, made sense of her fractured
world through words. Twenty years later, their lives are in free fall. Clover,
once a securities broker with Lehman, is out of a job and
struggling to reproduce before her fertility window slams
shut. Addison’s marriage to a writer’s-blocked novelist is
as stale as her so-called career as a painter. Hollywood
shut its gold-plated gates to Mia, who now stays home with
her four children, renovating and acquiring faster than her
director husband can pay the bills. Jane, the Paris bureau
chief for a newspaper whose foreign bureaus are now
shuttered, is caught in a vortex of loss. Like all Harvard grads, they’ve kept abreast of one another
via the red book, a class report published every five years,
containing brief autobiographical essays by fellow alumni.
But there’s the story we tell the world, and then there’s
the real story, as these former classmates will learn during
their twentieth reunion weekend, when they arrive with their
families, their histories, their dashed dreams, and their
secret yearnings to a relationship-changing, score-settling,
unforgettable weekend.
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