![]() Tony-a college military historian with a milquetoasty composer husband and an annoying tic of spelling words backwards doggedly hippie Charis, New Age-y survivor of incest, and lover of a US draft-dodger and Roz, power-businesswoman despite herself, wife of a sad-sack philanderer-all of the massed trio views Zenia not only as a communal threat, but as a chastening, changeable contrast to the courses of their own lives. ![]() Yet why does the very selfsame Zenia now appear across the room one afternoon at a restaurant where the three women are lunching? It creates turmoil. ![]() But Zenia, they are led relievedly to understand, has been dead for some years-blown up in a Beirut bomb blast they had carefully attended, together, her memorial service to make doubly sure. Antonia (Tony), Karen (Charis), and Roz are three 50-ish Toronto friends, pals since college, all of whom have had to negotiate (and none too well) the treacheries of another friend, Zenia-someone who in the past has stolen a significant man from each of the others. ![]()
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