A library book via P.
I thought, for most of this book, which is quite a hard work read, that ‘the interestings’ (5 or 6 student-y people, who meet at a summer camp in the mid 70’s when they are all in their late teens,) were less interesting than they believe. Until one of their partners (not one of the original ‘interestings’), says this to his ‘interesting’ partner.
However, and despite this caveat, it is quite a good and ‘interesting’ book covering much of the biographies of 5 very different New Yorkers who grow up in that period from the 1970’s to marriage, parenthood and the death of the wonderful ( I think) Ethan in around about 2014(?).
Bits of it are very well written; Ethan and Jules’ unrealised love for each other; Ethan’s inability to love his mentally disturbed child. ‘Ethan had imagined his life was nearly perfect except for the flawed son, but the flaw was in the father’. Help!
I would read more by this author. The divergences of different lives is well covered.
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