But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful-true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge.

Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. The New York Times–bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has been called 'genius' ( The Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair), 'ambitious' ( San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan), which The New York Times Book Review says is 'among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot.' It's everyone's.'- Entertainment Weekly (A) But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas.

She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. With this book has surpassed herself.”- The New York Times Book Review

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer