She resides unhappily in a nondescript Long Island town with her widowed mother and sour older sister. Her latest novel, The Interestings, is an absorbing, expansive story of the triumphs and disappointments of six people whose friendships are forged at a Massachusetts summer camp and whose lives and loves are linked forever thereafter.Īt Spirit-in-the-Woods, a performing and visual arts camp run by two aging Socialists and denizens of the Greenwich Village folk music scene, six 15-year-olds meet in the summer of 1974, “under the auspices of talent.” The only one of the group not from New York City is Julie Jacobson (immediately nicknamed “Jules” by her camp friends). It’s a sad fact, however, that – like too many women writers – her fine work has been eclipsed by her male counterparts, often less talented ones. In novels like The Ten-Year Nap and The Uncoupling, Meg Wolitzer has demonstrated she’s a keen-eyed observer of the foibles and follies of contemporary American life. By Meg Wolitzer, (Riverhead Books, $27.95, 468 pages)
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