Reunions - by Adams Cleveland David (Hardcover)

About the Book

Thisrich 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.

Book Synopsis

Thisrich 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.

About the Author

David Adams Cleveland is a novelist and art historian. His previous novel, Gods of Deception, was described by the WSJ's Walter Russell Mead as "an accomplished and compelling novel of enormous ambition . . . the author is a major American novelist whose ear for language, eye for both artistic and natural detail, cultural scholarship, understanding of human character, and feel for American social reality, makes him a national treasure. Gods of Deception was a 2022 Indies Book of the Year finalist for historical fiction. His third novel, Time's Betrayal, (Booklist starred review) was awarded Best Historical Novel of 2017 by Reading the Past. His second novel, Love's Attraction, was praised by Booklist as "a family saga moving between Concord and Venice--a twisty, atmospheric tale, leisurely told, about love and creativity, grief and pain, family and identity." Fictionalcities.uk included Love's Attraction on its list of top novels for 2013. His first novel, With a Gemlike Flame, drew wide praise for its evocation of Venice and the hunt for a lost masterpiece by Raphael.

His most recent art history book, A History of American Tonalism, won the Silver Medal in Art History in the Book of the Year Awards, 2010; and Outstanding Academic Title 2011 from the American Library Association; and the 3rd edition from Abbeville Press has gone on to be one of the best-selling books in American art history--now the standard reference in its field.

David was a regular reviewer for ARTnews, and has written for The MagazineAntiques, the AmericanArtReview, and DanceMagazine. For almost a decade, he was the Arts Editor at Voice of America. He and his wife split their time between the Catskills and Siesta Key.