The Gourmet Club

<p><strong>Sometimes one needs a book like this one-a pleasant love letter to a profession and to professional friends. - <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Four young lawyers meet in the fall of 1981 as new associates at Chicago's prestigious Abbott & Windsor. They are ambitious twenty-somethings each having graduated with honors from a top law school each with big plans for the future and each unaware that-to quote a Yiddish proverb-Man plans and God laughs.</p><p></p><p>At the end of their first week they gather with their spouses for a potluck dinner party. Enjoying the night they decide to meet again every three or four months naming themselves the Gourmet Club.</p><p></p><p>Over decades the Gourmet Club serves as a backdrop for evenings that reveal the characters' diverging paths and the ups and downs of their professional and personal lives. Pivotal moments unfold in a courtroom a boardroom a bedroom a baseball game a funeral and beyond illustrating how much has changed-both in the country and in the lives of the protagonists-since that first meeting in 1981.</p>