The Last Time I Saw You

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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.