Performance, Paperback by Thomas, Claire, ISBN 0593329171, ISBN-13 9780593329177, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

<b><b>A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything.</b></b><br/><br/>One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over.<br/><br/>Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone.<br/><br/>While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, <i>The Performance</i> is a novel that both explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.