The Diners : 'How Little I Have Known You' (Paperback)

For several years, a diverse group of friends have gathered to share Christmas dinner-academics, artists, physicians, couples and widows. In previous years, dinner talk revolved around toy party favors and small talk about family and health. This year it becomes a spontaneous and sometimes explosive confession of ideas and secrets of lives little known.FROM THE BOOK: "He'd forgotten how many years they'd gone to Betty's for Christmas dinner. Not that knowing was all that important. Mostly just curiosity.... He wondered if the woman in the bathroom finishing her makeup also had doubts. Probably both had allowed the dinner to slip, without objection, into the category of 'custom.' If he gave it any thought, 'custom' had come to mean 'duty' with only a remote possibility of pleasure ..."