So Old, So Young

Six friends meet at college and stay close into adulthood: Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam. Their lives keep moving. They take new jobs, move to new cities, marry other people and have children, yet they assume the friendship at the center of it all will stay as it is.

The novel follows the group across twenty years, told through five parties. The settings run from East Village apartments and destination weddings that go badly wrong to fortieth birthdays and backyard barbecues in the suburbs.

It reads as a love story and a tragic comedy at once, with a funny, warm tone that makes room for grief. Romance, professional envy and longing for the wrong things all pull at the group, and the book watches how people run from their friends and cling to them.

It also follows the Millennial generation through its growing pains. Time tests what these six believe they know about one another, and the question is whether the friendship can bend, stumble and still hold.