As he did with "In the Lake of the Woods," National Book Award winner Tim
O'Brien strikes at the emotional nerve center of our lives with this ambitious,
compassionate, and terrifically compelling new novel that tells the remarkable
story of the generation molded and defined by the 1960s. At the thirtieth
anniversary of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends
reassemble for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, and
regretting. The three decades since their graduation have seen marriage and
divorce, children and careers, dreams deferred and disappointed-many memories
and many ghosts. Together their individual stories create a portrait of a
generation launched