BOOK REVIEW: ‘Parents Weekend’ is good summer read
From the moment I started reading “Parents Weekend” by Alex Finlay, I could easily see it being made into a streaming service movie or a limited series. Set at Santa Clara University, the novel follows five college students — Libby Akana, Blane Roosevelt, Mark Wong, Felix Goffman, and Stella Maldonado — who mysteriously vanish during the much-anticipated parents weekend. The summary from the book jacket hooked me from the beginning. In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of parents' weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids — five residents of Campisi Hall — never show up to dinner. At first, everyone thinks they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours tick by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the st...
