Review: The Reunion

The Reunion by Guillaume Musso
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

THE REUNION, by bestselling French author Guillaume Musso, is astonishingly complex and riveting, a one-day read for me. On one level, it is a compelling clear-eyed examination of life at age 44, and whether success and life goals have been achieved; whether one has lived up to one's expectations and those of others. On another level, it is a finely-tuned and very complicated mystery from "out of the past," and I was engrossed from the beginning as over and over our protagonist - narrator, novelist Thomas Delagais, predicts his complete and sudden downfall, created by a seemingly chance event. On a third level yet, the novel is a comedy of errors, a tragic and fatal minuet in which almost nobody knows the truth, assumptions are made--wrongly, some assume responsibility not theirs, and nobody wins. As a backdrop are first love, maniacal obsession, and a terrifically nasty villain, unseen, pulling the strings. All in all, definitely one of my favourite novels of 2019.

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