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The guest book, Sarah Blake

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The guest book

1048937390

Sarah Blake

"The Guest Book follows three generations of the Ogdens, a powerful American family that "used to run the world." Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything--perfect children, good looks, a love everyone envies. After a tragedy befalls them, Ogden tries to bring Kitty back to life by purchasing an island in Maine. That island, and its house, come to define the Milton family, year after year after year. It is there that Kitty issues a refusal that will haunt her till the day she dies. In 1959 a young Jewish man, Len Levy, will get a job in Ogden's bank and earn the admiration of Ogden and one of his daughters, but the scorn of everyone else. Len's best friend, Reg Pauling, has always been the only black man in the room--at Harvard, at work, and finally at the Miltons' island. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Kittys granddaughter Evie hears and her cousins might be forced to sell the island due to a sharp decline in the familys fortune. When her husband brings back disturbing evidence about her grandfather's past, she realizes she is on the verge of finally understanding the silences that seemed to hover just below the surface of her family all her life." --, Provided by publisher