Just Jennifer

Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos (William Morrow)

There are friends from our school years that we keep with us all our lives.  There are others from whom we thought we’d never be separated that we lose track of more quickly that every imagined.  Pen, Will and Cat were inseparable during college, but once over, Pen never heard from Will or Cat for almost six years until she receives a text from Cat asking Pen to meet her at their college reunion, as she is in need of help.   Will has also received a similar message and the two arrive at the reunion only to learn that it was Cat’s husband who sent the message; that Cat has disappeared and he thinks that only her college friends can help him locate Cat.  De los Santos explores the bonds of present friendship and the friendships that we hold in the background, able to pick up where we left off once we are reunited.  De los Santos also shows how true, deep friendships can sometimes be fractured and pulled apart only to be put back together once time had done its magic.