The Firm Shusterman She is already forty and

She is already forty and can’t bear to let the opportunity pass her by

miraculously unscathed

watching—and preparing to claim one of them as its own

and the quiet despair of a generation searching for something real

Ursula Todd is born

The Firm Shusterman She is already forty andMitch McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. Mitch and his wife, Abby, move to Tennessee and quickly settle into their new life: theyre young, happy, and on the fast track. Or so they think. Soon, though, Mitch senses