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. Julie Jacobson, an outsider and possibly even a freak, had been invited in for obscure reasons, and now she sat in a corner on the unswept floor and attempted to position herself so she would appear unobtrusive yet not pathetic, which was a difficult balance.” They were only fifteen, sixteen, and they began to call themselves the name with tentative irony. “On a warm night in early July of that long-evaporated year, the Interestings gathered for the very first time. Today’s First Lines comes from THE INTERESTINGS by Meg Wolitzer.
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