Meg wolitzer the interestings review7/7/2023 There’s also a secret that threatens to blow the group apart, which elevates the story from linear narrative to literary page-turner. Though we see each of the characters’ lives and experiences, we’re mostly guided by Jules Jacobson, who found her way into the group almost by accident, but seems to be the glue that keeps them together.Ī crew of creatives, each member of The Interestings (a name for the collective that they agree upon over camp contraband vodka and Tang) has their own dreams and ambitions-as well as their own path to take-but they’re never too far away from one another as they grow up and face the struggles and successes of the real world. THE INTERESTINGS is a novel about six friends who meet at a summer arts camp in the 1970s, following them through their teen, college, and eventually adult years. I call them “the modern classics,” and one of my favorites is Meg Wolitzer’s THE INTERESTINGS. They’re books that have lasted, but we can’t yet predict where they’ll be in a century (though if they’re not on our bookshelves, we’ve done something terribly wrong). The third is a bit harder to define: they’re the ones published in the last fifty years or so by masters like Junot Díaz, Jay McInerney, Joan Didion, and Toni Morrison. The second, contemporary hits (yay, publishing!) that I’ve got to stay on top of to know what’s what. The first is the classics (Austen & Co.). On my Goodreads shelf, you can pretty distinctly divide the books I’ve read into three categories.
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