![]() ![]() Henry is the tall, dark, scholarly ringleader Francis is exotic and elegant Charles and Camilla are charming, mysterious twins Bunny is loud, a bit oblivious, and relentlessly cheerful. Richard doesn’t know anyone there and tends to go with the flow, so he obeys the whim and takes all his courses with this professor, causing him to get entangled in the elite group of Greek students. He learns that the campus Greek professor has strange, stringent expectations of his students those who wish to take Greek can only take classes with this professor. When he moves far from home to attend a small liberal-arts college, he tries to sign up for Greek as his foreign language. In the “flash-forward,” we learn that the narrator and some accomplices push a boy named Bunny off a cliff, and police don’t find his body for ten days the narrator refers to the crime as “Henry’s plan.” The narrator muses that he has never really left the scene of the murder in his mind and ends the prologue by saying, “This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”Īs the book kicks into motion, we meet our narrator, a laidback college-aged guy named Richard. This is one of those “flip-flopped” stories that provides a glimpse of a future scene in the beginning then spends much of the book building up to that point. ![]()
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