First published 1986
Sarah Martinez opens her laptop and stares at the list of names from her 1965 high school yearbook. Twenty years have passed since graduation, and she has decided to find out what happened to her former classmates. Her search takes her across the country, from suburban developments to city apartments, from corporate offices to small farms. Each reunion reveals how differently their lives have unfolded. The star quarterback now manages a hardware store. The class valedictorian dropped out of law school to become a carpenter. The quiet girl from the back row built a successful advertising agency. As Sarah documents these encounters, she confronts her own choices and the gap between teenage dreams and adult realities. The project becomes more than curiosity about others. It forces her to examine what she expected from life and what she actually found.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, family-life, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: United States
Period: 1965, 1980s
323 pages · Hardcover · Doubleday