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In 1987, an encounter between Julian Wainwright, the scion of a New York City old money family and an aspiring writer, and Mia Mendelsohn, a beautiful Jewish girl, ignites a love affair, spurred on by family tragedy, that spans twenty years, in a novel that looks at the course of love over time and the impact of ambition, money, tensons of faith, betrayal, and the specter of mortality. Reprint. 45,000 first printing.