55 pages • 1 hour read
Parents Weekend
A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Prologue-Part 1Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child abuse, child illness and death, graphic violence, illness and death, sexual content, sexual violence and harassment, and substance use.
Part 1: “Friday: Three Days Earlier”
Prologue Summary
Five college students are running for their lives on a beach. They reach the sea cave and huddle inside, wondering whether the police will find the group chat, social media posts, and video that led them here, or just their lifeless bodies.
Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary: “The Roosevelts”
It’s Friday of parents weekend at Santa Clara University—SCU—where Blane Roosevelt and Mark Wong are freshmen and pledging the same fraternity. Blane’s mother, Cynthia, is visiting. She’s a high-level official with the State Department, so her security team has cleared the dorm and performed background checks on the other four students in Blane’s capstone group, all of whom live in Campisi Hall. A hostile government has a bounty on Cynthia’s head, and her job has put her family in danger in the past: Blane was abducted at the age of 10 and held for four days before a special-ops team rescued him.
Stella joins Blane and Mark in the dining hall and tells them Natasha hasn’t come home yet, and Libby is freaking out. Blane tells her to stick to the story, like they agreed.
