This fabulous novel features three men, all blue-collar underdogs who meet while working as 'hashers' in the kitchen of the Theta sorority house at fictional Minerva College in 1967. Most of the girls are from places like Greenwich while the three men are scholarship kids working their way through. The most important event of their young lives comes on Dec. 1, 1969, the night of the first lottery, when one loses, one wins and one isn't so sure what his number means. On Memorial Day after their 1971 graduation, one of the Thetas joins them for the weekend on Cape Cod. Jacy leaves early on Tuesday morning, leaves a good-bye note and is never seen again. Her disappearance is still center stage when they reunite on the Cape forty-four years later. This is a truly superb exploration of life, love, family, the threat of war, heartbreak, failure, the eked out successes we all seek, and hopefully claim. The fact that it is written by someone my age provides an eerie immediacy.
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