I want to start at the end with this one. Sometimes books end leaving you wondering what happens to the characters. Sometimes you get everything tied up in a nice little package. This book uses a new way of doing the latter. In a serious of articles you get to a glimpse of where the people you get to know on the pages of Modern Lovers land.
In college Elizabeth, Zoe, Andrew, and Lydia meet and form a band. Lydia strikes out on her own and has a big hit with a song written for the band by Elizabeth and then she becomes a member of the sad 27 club.
Years later Elizabeth is married to Andrew and they have a son, Harry. A few houses away Zoe lives with her wife Jane and their daughter Ruby.
In the summer between Ruby's high school graduation and Harry's senior year they get involved. The backdrop for the budding romance is the drama in their parent's marriages.
How much of what you do as teenager, as a child really, should you still be blamed for or hold on to and hold against others? How much of who you were should you still be? What if you never found your footing? All of these are the questions that face the adults in this story while their almost adult children face the uncertainty of becoming adults.
A witty and well drawn story of life, love, and growing up.
(Finished June 30, 2016)
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