Chances are...

by Richard Russo

Hardcover, 2019

Status

Available

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Description

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, forty-four years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives and that of a significant other are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are. also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship's bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family or any other community. For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are. is a stunning demonstration of a highly acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable achievement"--… (more)

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LibraryThing member nivramkoorb
Richard Russo is one of my favorite authors. We share the same age and time spent in Arizona in the 70's. His books always sparkle with insight and wit. This one just was not up to the standards of his previous novels. 3 66 year old friends meet in Marthas' Vineyard in 2015. Having not seen in
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other in 10 years there are a lot of gaps in the relationships. Russo does a good job of getting into the heads of each character. The focus is on their last weekend together in the same spot along with Jacy the wild beautiful college friend that help make up the 4 Musketeers back in 1971. The book touches on lots of different issues and it was a good page turner but the plot had many holes that didn't measure up on the believability scale. If you are a Russo fan you will probably enjoy this. If you have never read Russo I suggest you skip this and go to Empire Falls, Anybody's Fool, and Nobody's Fool. Once you read those, you will want to read all of Russo. He is that good. This book is not the place to start.
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LibraryThing member jscape2000
I knew only a few chapters in that Chances Are would either thrill me or disappoint me. It set up a taut mystery, bordering between a who-done-it and a psychological thriller. Disappointment reigned as the author chose the least interesting, least surprising off ramps for each of his characters.
LibraryThing member Beth.Clarke
Russo crafted each characters in a way that the reader understand them completely as well as their connections to their friends. He weaved back and forth in time from their college years to their current age (60s) seamlessly. The time period is always clear to the reader. A mystery is intertwined
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perfectly. I highly recommend this novel. The writing is phenomenal and will appeal to many readers.
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LibraryThing member Romonko
Disappointed with this one. The book is as insipid as the song by Johnny Mathis. I kept reading because i thought "This guy is a Pulitzer Prize finalist", but it just didn't happen. In simple language, the book was boring, insipid and tedious. I finished the book so i gave it 2 stars, not 1. But I
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kept reading hoping it would get better, and it just didn't. It didn't help that I didn't care for the two characters who were the two main POV for the entire book. Sorry, this book was a bust for me and I certainly can't recommend it. If you knew all the books that I have in my TBR file, you might understand why I'm so disappointed that I wasted three days on this one. On to the next one.
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LibraryThing member diana.hauser
CHANCES ARE: A NOVEL by Richard Russo.
Three older men (in their 60’s) converge in Chilmark, a small village on Martha’s Vineyard, for a reminiscence of sorts. The house has been in Lincoln’s family for decades. And though Lincoln and his family rarely visit, the house holds memories that
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Lincoln (and his friends) can’t seem to shake.
Lincoln, Teddy and Mickey, from different parts of the country and from very different backgrounds, meet at Minerva, a private liberal arts college in New England, in the 1960’s. They are scholarship students and meet as ‘hashers’ or kitchen workers in a swanky sorority house on campus. Lincoln, Teddy and Mickey become life-long friends and soulmates, along with Jacy Calloway, a member of the sorority and a young woman they are all helplessly in love with.
After their 1971 graduation, they all meet at the Chilmark House for a goodbye weekend. That weekend will haunt them for the rest of their adult lives, as they try to untangle the mystery of Jacy’s disappearance from their lives, and the emotional backlash that it brings.

Being of a ‘certain age’, this book speaks to me in a profound way. There are so many events, so many occurrences, so many entanglements that demand a sense of closure in my head. I understand instantly and completely the three friends’ emotional states. Secrets that need to be told; behaviors that need to be explained; friendships that need to be redefined.
CHANCES ARE is humorous at times, very thoughtful, emotional, surprising; a treatise on coming of age and coming to a comfortable place in ‘older age’; the complexities of deep friendship.
I would heartily recommend this book. Thank you Mr. Russo.
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LibraryThing member linda.a.
Lincoln, Mickey and Teddy are from working-class backgrounds and have been friends since they first met, as scholarship students, at a Connecticut college in the late 1960s. Although very different in personality, they were initially drawn together when, to help finance their college years, they
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worked as “hashers” in the sorority house dining hall of Minerva College. Whilst there they met Jacy, a fellow student from a wealthy background who became an integral part of their friendship group, and with whom each of them fell head over heels in love. Although she was engaged to someone from the same social class as her family, she seemed to prefer spending time with them.
On 1st December 1969, midway through their college years, they spent the evening glued to a small black and white television in the sorority house, anxiously watching the first draft lottery. That was the evening the fates of approximately 850,000 young men would be decided, dependent on when their date of birth, contained in one of 366 capsules, would be drawn. Everyone wanted as high a number as possible because that would mean a low risk of being called up to serve in Vietnam but a low number meant an early call-up … or making the decision to avoiding that fate by fleeing to Canada. Although two of the young men are lucky enough to get a high enough number to make call-up unlikely, the third gets a very low one so he and his friends know that, as soon as he graduates, he is certain to be called up.
When they finally graduate in 1971 the three friends and Jacy, who is shortly due to get married, decide to spend the Memorial Day long-weekend together on Martha’s Vineyard, at the holiday house owned by Lincoln’s mother. They all enjoy this farewell weekend despite the tension generated by the knowledge that one of the three men will shortly be called up and that Jacy’s wedding was imminent. However, following that weekend Jacy was never seen again and nor was the mystery of her disappearance ever solved. Had one of the three killed her because he was about to lose her to another man? Had a disagreeable neighbour, whose advances she’d rejected, killed her? Or had she hitch-hiked when she left the island and been picked up by a murderer?
Fast-forward to 2015: all three men are sixty-six years old and had last got together ten years earlier. Their disparate personalities are reflected in the many ways in which their lives have taken very different paths:
one of them is a happily married family man who owns a commercial real estate business; another is a bachelor, a complex, introverted man who is a small-firm publisher and struggles with his mental health, and the third is rock musician who rides a motorbike and whose temper has a short fuse. As Lincoln is considering selling the holiday house he inherited when his mother died, the friends agree to meet there for a reunion. It very quickly becomes clear that in the intervening years each of them has remained obsessed with Jacy, and has puzzled over her disappearance. When they reflect on that long-lost weekend they realise that they need to solve the mystery of what happened to the girl none of them has ever stopped loving ... but what secrets and suspicions does each man hold, and will whatever they gradually share make them question how well they truly know one another?
As the timeline moves between past and present and with alternating chapters using the narrative voices of Lincoln and Teddy, a picture gradually emerges of all their backgrounds, the various experiences which have influenced the ways in which they’ve lived their lives, shaped their decision-making, forged their enduring friendship and made them the men they are today. Although Mickey’s narrative voice isn’t heard until two thirds of the way through the book, his story is told through the reminiscences of Lincoln and Teddy, meaning that he is always as “present” in the developing story as they are. Each of the characters feels that the direction his life took after graduating was, in any ways, predicated by the result of the draft lottery and I found their various reflections on this to be very thought-provoking, partly because philosophising on life-choices, on pivotal moments and “roads not taken” during our lives is a tempting self-indulgence for most of us.
Almost immediately I felt completely caught up in the lives of these characters as they struggled to be open with one another, as they faced up to their regrets and remorse, their guilt and their shame, their reflections on how contented, or otherwise, they are with the decisions they have made and the people they have become, as well as with their hopes and expectations for the future. The mystery of what happened to Jacy was a central theme and I felt that the author managed the tension and suspense generated by this in a tightly-controlled way and although I found that the final resolution did require a degree of incredulity, this didn’t detract from my overall satisfaction with the outcome! In addition to creating such credible characters, the author conveyed an impressive sense of time and place, particularly with his evocations of the early 1970s, the influence of the Vietnam war, the music, the drug-culture and the massive social and political changes which were taking place at that time.
This is an elegantly-written, powerful and memorable story, embracing many thought-provoking themes, particularly ones about masculinity, the nature of male friendships, the power of unrequited love, the complexities of family relationships, especially those between fathers and sons, an insidious working-class insecurity which harbours self-doubt, the reverberating effects of the choices people make at various times in their lives, reflections on fate versus freewill and the challenges of aging.
This is the first novel I’ve read by this author but, if Richard Russo’s acute observations of people and their milieu, the essential humanity he brings to his characters, his wry sense of humour and his ironic reflections on life are trademarks of his writing style, I’m sure that I’ll now enjoy working my way through his backlist!
One final reflection … when Mickey invites Lincoln to stay with him after the weekend he offers him the use of his pull-out sofa saying, “the dog won’t like it, but his affection and forgiveness can usually be bought with chocolate.” Would the author please tell Mickey to find another treat for his dog because chocolate can be dangerous, possibly even lethal, for dogs!
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LibraryThing member sleahey
Three sixty-six year old guys who were best friends in college gather on Martha's Vineyard for a reunion. The fourth best friend was a girl named Jacy, whom they were each in love with in college, but she disappeared after their island weekend over Memorial Day right after they graduated. Her
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mysterious disappearance has haunted each of the men, as well as some of the islanders, in different ways, and they find that they are still looking for her--or at least an explanation--in the present. The strength of this novel, which is actually a mystery, is in the well-drawn characters and the setting. Each of the three men is complicated in unique ways, and their relationships reflect their backgrounds and personalities. The island setting is well-suited for their two gatherings, one of hopeful youth during the Vietnam conflict and one of wiser, more cynical adults during a vague present. With Johnny Mathis's song in the background, chances are awfully good that we'll remember these characters.
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LibraryThing member belmarchris
Quick enjoyable read. Just not up to the Richard Russo standard.
LibraryThing member chasidar
I listened to the audiobook and loved it. Loved the characters, loved the story.
LibraryThing member bookworm12
Three old friends, Mickey, Teddy, and Lincoln, meet at Martha’s Vineyard for the first time in years. The three were friends in college, and all fell in love with the same woman, Jacy.

I kept trying to put my finger on what I didn’t like about this book. I think in the end it was the fact that
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Jacy was such an empty character. She is the woman that all three men are in love with, but we only learned things about her in terms of how the men around her affect her. It reminded me of the Virgin Suicides in that way. We only see her through the eyes of everyone who loves her, and that’s not as interesting. Even when we learn more about her history, it’s still focused on the men in her life, not who she truly is.

Russo is an excellent writer, one I’ve always loved, and the book is full of beautiful descriptions, but the characters felt empty to me. The most important fact of their lives was that they had once loved a woman in college who had disappeared. It felt like a weak ode to The Sun Also Rises and I wasn’t a big fan.
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LibraryThing member SamSattler
Richard Russo is one of those writers who has not felt compelled to publish a novel every year just because so many of us have come to expect that from our favorite authors – and his slower pace is reflected in the consistently high quality of his work. Russo, who was first published in 1986
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(Mohawk), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction some sixteen years later with what was only his fifth book, Empire Falls. Chances Are is only his ninth novel (he has also published two short story collections, a memoir, and a collection of essays) in a career that now spans something like thirty-five years. And it is one very fine novel.

It’s September, and most of the tourists and summer residents have finally packed up and left Martha’s Vineyard for another year. But three sixty-six-year-old men, friends since they first met as college freshmen, have decided to spend a weekend on the island catching up and reminiscing about the experiences they shared in the crazy 1960s. The men are still close friends but have not been together for ten years, so there is a lot to talk about. The real question is how willing they are to share some of the secrets they’ve been hiding from each other.

Lincoln is now a commercial real estate broker in Las Vegas where he lives with his wife, the mother of his six children. As he tells it, he is financially comfortable now, but he was a much richer man in 2008 before the crash. Consequently, Lincoln is under some pressure to sell the Martha’s Vineyard property he inherited from his mother. Teddy is an academic who runs a tiny press for a university in Syracuse and has discovered that he is very good at fixing things – especially broken books. Mickey, who lives in nearby Cape Cod, is a musician who fronts a regionally-popular band and enjoys much the same lifestyle that he has lived since he was in his twenties. Of the three men, he is the one who seems to have changed the least since they went to school together in Connecticut.

However, there is someone missing from this reunion, and all three men feel her absence deep down inside themselves. Jacy was the sorority girl they were all in love with, each of them secretly hoping that he would be the one Jacy chose to spend the rest of her life with – despite how guilty they still feel about having been so willing to betray the trust and friendship of the other two Musketeers if that’s what it took to win Jacy’s love. But then, in 1971 during their last weekend together, Jacy disappeared from the island, never to be heard from again, and that kind of betrayal became unnecessary.

What, though, happened to Jacy? Her disappearance was never solved, and when Lincoln starts asking questions about that weekend, disturbing answers begin to surface.

Chances Are, despite the unsolved mystery it centers itself around, is not really a mystery novel. Rather, it is a literary novel that depends on its exceptionally well-developed characters to keep its readers turning pages. Russo proves himself to be such a master of misdirection here that his readers are certain to be fascinated as the author subtly reveals one clue after the other about who Lincoln, Teddy, Mickey, and Jacy are and how they became those people. And, too, this one has one of the most satisfying and well-written endings that I’ve read so far this year. Chances Are is one I’ll be recommending to my friends for years to come.
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LibraryThing member Doondeck
One of Russo’s best. Lots of plot twists and great characters.
LibraryThing member jphamilton
Richard Russo has been always been a reliable writer to deliver excellent novels about regular everyday characters who are shown to have a lot of heart in how they live their lives. He loves to wrap a story around characters the reader will care about, characters that you can literally feel their
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humanity. I think that Russo has a special quality in his writing to explore and show how men feel and act as they do through life. He’s always spot-on for what motivates different types of men. I feel that he has written a very special novel with Chances Are…, one that has stayed fresh in my mind days after finishing that last page.
In his latest novel, we have three sixty-six year old men--Teddy, Lincoln, and Mickey--who get together in a family cottage on Martha’s Vineyard, to ponder where they’ve gone in their lives (commercial real estate in Las Vegas, rock musician, and a small-press publisher and want-to-be writer) after attending the same small college back in the 1970s. They always kidded themselves about being comrades, like the Three Musketeers. All three worked at a sorority, and all three were in love with the same free-spirited hippie girl, Jacy.
Russo has written a book that’s as close to a mystery as he’s ever gotten. So much of the book revolves around these men thinking back forty years, to the last time they gathered at this same cottage, with Jacy, in 1971. That was the last time they saw her, before she completely disappeared. Their fascination and longing for this beautiful young woman from their youth, is the center of many of their thoughts, fantasies, and conversations during their island reunion. They go so far as to get the local newspaper and the island’s former chief of police checking into Jacy’s disappearance. The focus of suspicion includes both island residents, and our three main characters. The mystery of her disappearance is revealed in a sad story from an unsuspected source.
The sensitive writing reveals how these three men have dealt with their longings for this young woman who has often filled their heads over those many years. When the truth is finally revealed to them, these three men in their sixties have to come to grips with their part in the story, as well as what it means to lose the mystery and any future possibilities with Jacy, and what the truth means to them and their relationship with each other.
I found this a very satisfying book, as I found myself feeling a certain kinship with these very different men. Amusing, entertaining, heart-felt, surprising, and being left feeling very close to the story’s characters—what more can a book be expected to deliver? This is one of the best books by one of my favorite writers.
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LibraryThing member lauralkeet
Lincoln, Teddy, and Mickey were fast friends during their college days in the 1960s. Now in their mid-60s, life has taken each of them in very different directions. As Lincoln prepares to sell a family vacation home in Martha’s Vineyard, he invites the men to join him for a long weekend
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“reunion.” Notably absent is Jacy, a woman every one of them was infatuated with in college, who disappeared without a trace after a similar weekend at the Cape shortly after graduation.

Each man comes to Martha's Vineyard with baggage. The most significant moment of their young lives was December 1, 1969: the night the Vietnam draft lottery was broadcast on national television. Mickey, with the lowest number, ultimately went to Canada to avoid military service; Teddy spent his life in academia but never found a clear sense of purpose; Lincoln was never at risk of going to Vietnam but is haunted by his father’s dogmatic presence and a sense of failure despite all outward appearances. The novel explores the turns their lives took after the lottery and the men they have become, while also slowly revealing Jacy’s story.

I most enjoyed the character studies in this novel, as well as Russo’s references to modern politics (the weekend reunion takes place in 2015). The mystery of Jacy’s disappearance was sometimes too dominant, and its resolution a little too pat but then this is supposed to be a novel about male friendships, not a “whodunnit.” It’s not a bad book, but it’s not Russo’s best either.
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LibraryThing member novelcommentary
Russo has always been one of my favorite authors. Nobody's Fool, Empire Grill, Straight Man are some of my all time favorites. His newest novel Chances Are tells the story of three college buddies who used to work as hashers in a sorority house in a liberal arts college in the northeast. They
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watched in 1969 as their numbers were called for the draft and as one of them, Mickey, was number nine, meaning you're either going to Vietnam or Canada. Lincoln and Teddy, the main narrators of the story were more fortunate. All three are in love with a girl named Jacy who is out of their league but seems to enjoy their company. At the end of college when they all decide to spend one last weekend at Martha's Vineyard, Lincoln's family getaway, Jacy disappeared. Though it was assumed she was running out on a future wedding, her absence was never resolved. Now at 66, forty years later, the three musketeers return to that same summer house and hash out what has happened to their lives. Russo does a nice job with the descriptions of the aging friends, the choices they made and the realizations they have discovered. All three have interesting father figures who have factored into who they have become. " The thing to understand about your father... is that you always have a choice. You can do things his way, or you can wish you had."
As the novel turns a bit into a detective story, family secrets and rekindled animosities take over the narrative and maybe stray away from what Russo does best, but in all this is a pleasant read. The novel has a Big Chill feel to it.
Some lines:
The solid earth beneath his feet had turned to sand, and his parents, the two most familiar people in his life, into strangers. In time he would regain his footing, but he would never again entirely trust it.

By sixteen, sneaking into raunchy New Haven bars and sitting in with older guys whose girlfriends didn’t wear bras and seemed to enjoy revealing this fact by bending over in front of Mickey, who would later joke with Lincoln and Teddy that he had a hard-on for all of 1965.

Maybe this was the unstated purpose of education, to get young people to see the world through the tired eyes of age: disappointment and exhaustion and defeat masquerading as wisdom.

What made the contest between fate and free will so lopsided was that human beings invariably mistook one for the other, hurling themselves furiously against that which is fixed and immutable while ignoring the very things over which they actually had some control.

NYT
The suspense may carry you through the first half of the novel, but what works better is Russo’s depiction of his central characters, with their father issues and insecurities about class and money, their ingrained cluelessness about women and their need to present a certain image to the world, even if they’re pretty sure the world couldn’t care less.

Chances Are…” is, at heart, less a mystery than an evocation of what happens when you subscribe to “the peculiarly male conviction that silence conveyed one’s feelings better than anything else.” When Lincoln, Teddy and Mickey are finally forced to speak about those feelings, they discover that “the membrane separating sympathy from pity could be paper thin.” Is it possible the weekend will be, as Teddy wonders, “a misguided attempt to preserve something already lost”?
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LibraryThing member lisa875
Excellent book. I would give it more than five stars if I could. It's a goldmine of quotes. I almost hunted for them to add them but it's better if you find the ones that mean a lot to you. And you will. The author does not disappoint.
LibraryThing member froxgirl
Although there are brief glimmers of the towering Russo of Empire Falls and Nobody's/Everybody's Fool, my fear is that his mastery of storytelling is faltering. The story of three old college friends and their missing wild hippie girl-ghost convening for a week on Martha's Vineyard fifty years
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later doesn't provide a riveting framework, and even the usual cohort of amusing secondary characters cannot keep the narrative from bogging down. The tale of the week in real time 2015, and its pre-history, commencing with the first draft lottery draw for Vietnam in 1969, is told by two of the three men until the neatly wrapped up mystery is resolved by the third. Even the central curmudgeon, the ridiculously-named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, doesn't hold a candle to their equivalents in Russo's earlier novels. However, since middling Russo beats out most other authors, I can still recommend this novel, but it could have been shorter and much more could have been made with narrator Lincoln's wife Anita, mother of six (SIX!)children.

Quotes: "The thing to understand about your father is that you always have a choice. You can do things his way, or you can wish you had."

"What's interesting is that people aren't more curious about each other. We let people keep their secrets but then convince ourselves we know them anyway."

"What made the contrast between fate and free will so lopsided was that human beings invariably mistook one for the other, hurling themselves furiously against that which is fixed and immutable while ignoring the very things over which they had some control."
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LibraryThing member ozzer
Russo looks into the age-old conundrum of fate vs free will. Three friends from College reunite as old men on Martha's Vineyard. The plot unfolds when they begin to question the disappearance of a young woman all three loved and vacationed with on the island following their graduation. Lincoln,
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Teddy and Mickey are fully realized and likeable protagonists, each with unique life challenges. Russo succeeds in evoking friendship and loyalty in the face of some pretty unusual family dynamics. He maintains interest and suspense throughout leading to a surprising outcome. This is a totally satisfying and pleasurable read that does justice to its philosophical underpinnings.
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LibraryThing member jmoncton
Martha's Vineyard is my happy place and I'm fortunate to be able to spend a few weeks there every year. So I love the opportunity to read any book set on the Vineyard, not to mention that reading Richard Russo is a treat.

Three men in their 60's reunite for a weekend on Martha's Vineyard. They met
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in college and became close friends, but over the years, they have each gone their own way and couldn't be leading more different lives. Lincoln is a real estate broker, Teddy is a university professor and small press publisher, and Mickey is a musician who continues to rock on in his sixties. But what binds them together is not only their college experience during the Vietnam era, but also a passion they all held for the same woman. As they reunite after decades apart, some deep secrets are revealed that could tear apart their fragile bonds.

This book was such a pleasure to read. Maybe it was because I could completely relate to the whole process of reflecting back on who we were during our college years and look at where life has taken us. The plot had a few twists and there were times when it almost felt like this was a mystery. Overall a quiet and reflective story told with humor and sadness.
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LibraryThing member Alphawoman
This book was great. Good characters, great pace, superb plot, satisfying.

Really took to heart the last several pages.
LibraryThing member kimkimkim
I know all these people, I know this generation, after all it is mine. I remember the night of the draft lottery and its destruction of so many friendships. Russo got so many of the details right, but the story left me wanting, wondering and feeling as if the unraveling was too perfect.

Richard
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Russo has one again thrown in a thought that left me reeling – “What can’t be true, isn’t, …. , no matter how much you want it to be.”
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LibraryThing member rglossne
Three college friends convene on Martha’s Vineyard in September. Lincoln, who owns the house in Chilmark, is there to see if what work has to be done to put the house on the market. Teddy is at loose ends in his work and his life. And Mickey is still living the life of a rock and roll musician,
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playing in local bars in his native Massachusetts. Hovering over them all is the ghost of Jacy, the girl they all loved, who disappeared from the island during Memorial Day weekend after they graduated. What happened to Jacy, and what will come next for each of these men, is the story Russo is giving us. A satisfying read.
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LibraryThing member EllenH
This is literary fiction about men's friendships, class, race & life. Not alot of action, but a mystery about the female character in the past. This is really well written.
LibraryThing member shazjhb
Excellent book about male friendships with interesting twist and turns. Liked the characters.
LibraryThing member N.W.Moors
Lincoln, Teddy, and Mickey meet for a reunion of sorts at the Martha's Vineyard cottage where forty-four years earlier they spent the Memorial Day weekend after their college graduation. Lincoln is happily married with six children, Teddy has stayed alone, and Mickey is still a wild man, playing
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with his band after returning from Canada where he went when his draft number was low during the Viet Nam war. On that weekend long ago, there was a fourth person, Jacy, a young woman who was friends with them all and who disappeared after the weekend was over. Her disappearance has always been a mystery.
The story is mostly told through Lincoln and Teddy's POVs with lots of flashbacks to their youth, both before college and then their college years where they all met as the scholarship students at an elite New England college. Being about the same age, I found it a trip down memory lane as Mr. Russo details the draft lottery, college parties, and other experiences. He does a great job in describing how those experiences built the men they are today. They were all in love with Jacy, and their reunion brings many of those memories back. Yet they address her disappearance in different ways.
It's lovely writing and a thoroughly enjoyable story about growing older and becoming comfortable with oneself.
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