An ending that made me cry

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We have all at some point went over in our heads the times we wish we could take things back in an argument or wished we would have said the thing we were most afraid of saying. Sometimes we daydream about simply having another chance.

Sabrina and her friend Jessica while in college make a list of 5 people dead or alive that they would have dinner with. On Sabrina’s 30th birthday, that list becomes a reality. She walks into her favorite restaurant and there at the table are Conrad (a past professor), Robert (her father who left her and her mom when she was a little girl), Tobias (her ex lover whom she shares a complicated history with), Jessica (her best friend), Audrey Hepburn (one of her favorite actresses). What is the purpose of this dinner? Is it to simply chit chat, or will truths that they all have avoided become the things they have to face before the clock strikes midnight?

This at first was a 3.5 star for me, mainly because I couldn’t get invested. But the ending of this novel just shattered my soul to pieces, and it all came full circle for me.