The college years are a time to explore new things, experience independence and find your place in life. College is also a time to make new friendships – some which last throughout your adult life – and to perhaps find that one professor who challenges you to look at life in a different way. What happens, though, when that professor pushes the boundaries and winds up as a suspect in the murder of one of his students?
In the same vein as Donna Tartt’s “A Secret History,” “Bradstreet Gate” by Robin Kirman chronicles the lives of three Harvard students in the decade after the murder of a classmate and how their lives are intertwined and changed by their associations with the charismatic professor accused of the murder.
Georgia Calvin, Charlie Fournoy and Alice Kovac are not your stereotypical Harvard students. Georgia is a free-spirit who spent her early teen years following her father, an artist, around the globe as he became famous for his borderline-pornographic photographs of his young daughter. Charlie comes from a blue collar family living in a blue collar Long Island town and he is determined to succeed beyond his middle-class upbringing. Alice, born to Polish immigrant parents, always struggled to fit in and used her sarcasm and her razor-sharp tongue to disguise her insecurities. The three become unlikely friends and although they come from different backgrounds, they all share one thing in common - their fascination with the enigmatic Professor Rufus Storrow, who touches their lives in very different ways.
The book jumps between their years at Harvard and then the 10 years after they leave the university, following the murder of Julie Patel, a student of Professor Storrow's.
Was the professor involved in Julie's death? Were the three friends somehow responsible for Julie's murder? Unfortunately, after a very long read, one is left with more questions than answers.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
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