Len’s best friend Reg Pauling has always been the only black man in the room-at Harvard, at work, and finally at the Miltons’ island in Maine.Īn island that, at the dawn of the 21st century, this last generation doesn’t have the money to keep. In 1959 a young Jewish man, Len Levy, will get a job in Ogden’s bank and earn the admiration of Ogden and one of his daughters, but the scorn of everyone else. And it is there that Kitty issues a refusal that will haunt her till the day she dies. That island, and its house, come to define and burnish the Milton family, year after year after year. But after a tragedy befalls them, Ogden tries to bring Kitty back to life by purchasing an island in Maine. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything-perfect children, good looks, a love everyone envies. The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that “used to run the world”.Īnd when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America.
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