PositiveThe Portland Press HeraldThis is a wonderful book that is perhaps 100 pages too long. It requires you to have a strong stomach and a roomy book bag. It\'s about four college friends who move to Manhattan after graduation, and it tracks their rises, falls, and intersections over the course of at least four decades. Jude St. Francis and his severely troubled past becomes the magnet around which the story orbits, and it is in the flashbacks to his childhood and the abuses he suffered that the reader is challenged to keep reading. Don\'t be daunted by its heft or subject matter: this is a book worth giving your time.
