Loner Lena reaches out to Kostos in a long-shot effort to rekindle what they had. Bridget leaves her boyfriend to travel around California.
Brashares creates a sensitive panorama of grief in following how the friends react to loss: Carmen, now a television actress, throws herself into planning her expensive wedding, though she doesn't really connect with her icy fianc. But what begins as a great idea turns tragic when Tibby drowns and letters she left behind hint it may not have been an accident. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.īrashares revives the Traveling Pants sisterhood for a bittersweet victory lap that finds the sisters grown up and pretty much out of contact until Tibby, who now lives in Australia, proposes a reunion in Greece, where Lena has a family home and a lost love, Kostos. And indeed, it will change their lives forever-but in ways that none of them could ever have expected. Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness.
Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Yet despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. On the cusp of turning thirty, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget are now living separate lives, out on their own.
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