Reunions

This rich and absorbing novel plumbs the friendships and secrets of four talented women during their 40-year reunion at Princeton University. 

Gini, Annette, Bianca, and Apolonia come together for a joyous weekend of shared memories. Yet the reunion takes a bizarre turn when the four friends meet young Jacob, the son of their brilliant former classmate, Jake Burrage, now the reclusive CEO of Burrage Pharmaceuticals. 

     Jacob seems to know more about the four women than any son should or could possibly know. Such as how Gini, the first female CEO of a major publishing house, had a tempestuous romance with Jake Burrage as an undergraduate; and how Annette, married to a struggling tennis player, recruited Jake to track her husband’s matches; and how Bianca, a once-celebrated concert pianist, had a brief affair with Jake in Venice; and how Apolonia, a doctor to the celebrity rich, was tutored in college by Jake, while fending off his curiosity about a scandalous affair.

     When Jacob disconcertingly calls into question pivotal moments that have shaped each woman’s life, they must consider the specter of a mind-boggling possibility borne on the cutting-edge of biotech’s wild frontier.