From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of
Pleasures*,* comes a wonderful new novel about women and men
reconnecting with one another--and themselves--at their fortieth high
school reunion.
To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this
reunion means something different--a last opportunity to say something
long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life,
a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with
a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear.
As the onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend, they
discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives.
For newly divorced Dorothy Shauman, the reunion brings with it the
possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob,
Pete Decker. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice Mayhew,
it's a chance to reexamine a painful past. For Lester Heseenpfeffer, a
veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow
vet--or at least that's what he tells himself. For Candy Armstrong, the
class beauty, it's the hope of finding friendship before it is too late.
As Dorothy, Mary Alice, Lester, Candy, and the other classmates converge
for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: Desires and
personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made.
For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen.
In this beautiful novel, Elizabeth Berg deftly weaves together stories
of roads taken and not taken, choices made and opportunities missed, and
the possibilities of second chances.
