Frank Carlson Library

"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she'd been flirting with attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him...

A class reunion 25 years later, in the form of a week-long hike through the High Sierras of California, attracts only two women. The novel describes their tense adjustment to each other, one a mother and successful historian, the other a failure and a lesbian.