Readers will be casting their votes for Rick-and not the guy who got away.įour men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions-as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer-and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. Harbison makes a vivid case for Nate’s sexual prowess but fails to illustrate any other traits that would qualify him for soul-mate-hood. Should she have just let sleeping Nates lie? Although there are some trenchant social observations here, Erin’s ever-churning ruminations and regrets begin to pall. They fall back into bed without so much as a word, but then she finds his wedding ring. But as she passes the house, who should appear but Nate, slightly more grizzled. Convinced he moved away long ago, she can’t resist revisiting Nate’s former home. Witnessing Roxanne’s self-delusion leads Erin to ponder if Nate shares her nostalgia for their past. In the present, Roxanne refuses to believe that her ex-boyfriend can’t be somehow forced to attend her party. Nate is Romeo without the flowery speeches or depth. Although '80s Erin can’t tamp down her longing for Nate, she still chafes at the fact that they never have a real date-instead they hang out with his Animal House–eligible contingent of friends. The book alternates between the mid ’80s, as the courtship of Nate and Erin charts its rocky course, and the present. There’s nothing wrong with Rick, except that he’s not.Nate. Rick, her daughter’s best friend’s father, a prominent Washington, D.C., lawyer, has proposed and is waiting for an answer. Although she went on to other loves and is the single mother of a daughter, she’s never found Nate’s equal in any man. Fielding Roxanne’s outrageous requests (helicopters, horses in the water park, a flock of eagles), Erin recalls her own much less entitled teenage years, overshadowed by her passion for Nate, her first lover. A harried events planner pines for the high-school heartthrob who got away, but is the feeling mutual?Įrin Edwards works for a world-class luxury resort in Virginia, coordinating lavish weddings, bar mitzvahs and birthday parties, like the Sweet 16 bash the hotel is hosting for Roxanne, the world’s brattiest teenager.
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