After the Reunion - Paperback

by Rona Jaffe (Author)

From the New York Times-bestselling author, this enthralling sequel tells "a wonderful story of women who are ready to take a chance on life" (The Charlotte Observer).

"Rona Jaffe's storytelling is irresistible." --Los Angeles Times

The popular sequel to Class Reunion, Rona Jaffe's After the Reunion continues the heartwarming story of Daphne, Emily, Chris, and Annabel five years after their class reunion. The affluent quartet, now in their mid-forties, is each coping with romantic and domestic problems at home while trying to outgrow the social and moral codes that controlled them during their Harvard years. After the Reunion is a return to some of Jaffe's most beloved characters, and readers will undoubtedly embrace their own reunion with these characters on the page.

"Rejoice, Rona Jaffe fans!" --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Hypnotic narrative . . . artfully crafted dialogue. . . . We are subtly drawn into the careers of these four women, their men, and their children, until we genuinely come to know them. . . . After the Reunion demands to be read at a single sitting, and in many cases probably will be." --John Barkham

"After the Reunion satisfies the urge of every panting reader who wants to know, as I do, 'And then what happened?'" --The Washington Times

Originally published in 1985.

Author Biography

Rona Jaffe (1931-2005) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Dalton School and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 at the age of nineteen. In her early twenties, she worked at Fawcett Publications, starting as a file clerk and working her way up to associate editor. At twenty-five, she quit her job to focus on her novel The Best of Everything (1958). She went on to write sixteen more books during her career including Mr. Right Is Dead (1965), The Other Woman (1972), Family Secrets (1974), Class Reunion (1979), The Road Taken (2000), and The Room-Mating Season (2001). In 1995, she established The Rona Jaffe Foundation, supporting promising emergent women writers. Jaffe died of cancer in 2005.