Dear Monica Lewinsky: A Novel by Julia Langbein Candles an old friend with a

an old friend with a dark past

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A day at the community pool is full of unwater magic—dunking and diving with friends

It’s an autumn weekend at a comfortable New York country house where two deeply intertwined families have gathered to mark the host’s fifty-second birthday

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Dear Monica Lewinsky: A Novel by Julia Langbein Candles an old friend with aForty year old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony, Jeans long standing malaise becomes an emotional crisis. Desperate to understand why this relationship derailed her life so completely, she begins rereading