Bad-cop Leo is still the flake Ellen dumped with good reason and good-cop Andy is still the mensch she very wisely married.įour men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions-as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer-and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. Despite a competent depiction of Ellen’s social dislocation, the supposed Andy vs. (She’s been motherless since she was a teen.) After a quarrel with Andy, Ellen turns again to Leo. In her cushy Atlanta exile, Ellen’s domestic disquiet is palpable: A product of blue-collar Pittsburgh, she feels smothered by the too-patrician, too-generous, too-Southern Grahams but also relishes belonging to a family. Guiltily, she doesn’t mention Leo around Andy or Margot.
Ellen finds herself again in emotional thrall to Leo, especially after they hold hands throughout the red-eye flight home. Ellen resists Leo’s “just friendship” overtures, until he sets her up on an L.A. She thought, wrongly, that her troubled memories of their intense, yearlong affair had abated. Ellen chances to glimpse her ex-boyfriend, Leo, a journalist, on a New York street. Margot has married and moved back to her wealthy family’s home ground, Atlanta, and Andy, a Wall Street lawyer, yearns to simplify his life, buy a sprawling suburban home and go into practice with Dad. In her latest outing, 30-something Ellen, a successful freelance Manhattan photographer, has just married Andy Graham, brother of her college friend Margot. What’s a girl to do? Giffin ( Baby Proof, 2006, etc.) specializes in this kind of dilemma, featuring a young woman torn between good-cop and bad-cop lovers. When Joe and Cate unexpectedly cross paths one afternoon, their connection is instant and intense.A newlywed must choose between her reliable, handsome and wealthy Atlanta husband and her charismatic, handsome but unpredictable ex, whom she left behind in Manhattan. Yet she feels like a fraud, faking it in a world to which she’s never truly belonged. Before too long, Cate’s face is in magazines and on billboards.
After being discovered by a model scout at age sixteen, Cate decides that her looks may be her only ticket out of the cycle of disappointment that her mother has always inhabited. She, too, grew up fatherless-and after her mother marries an abusive man, she is forced to fend for herself. Meanwhile, no one ever expected anything of Cate Cooper. Despite his best intentions, he has trouble meeting the expectations of a nation, as well as those of his exacting mother, Dottie. But Joe III is a free spirit-and a little bit reckless. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance.
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