num_pages: 353
description: From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Vacationers a smart highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from collegetheir own kids now going to collegeand what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in.Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry buy real estate and start businesses and families all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality independence and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring.Back in the band's heyday Elizabeth put on a snarl over her Midwestern smile Andrew let his unwashed hair grow past his chin and Zoe was the lesbian all the straight women wanted to sleep with. Now nearing fifty they all live within shouting distance in the same neighborhood deep in gentrified Brooklyn and the trappings of the adult world seem to have arrived with ease. But the summer that their children reach maturity (and start sleeping together) the fabric of the adults' lives suddenly begins to unravel and the secrets and revelations that are finally let looseabout themselves and about the famous fourth band member who soared and fell without themcan never be reclaimed.Straub packs wisdom and insight and humor together in a satisfying book about neighbors and nosiness ambition and pleasure the excitement of youth the shock of middle age and the fact that our passionsbe they food or friendship or musicnever go away they just evolve and grow along with us.
language: English
title: Modern Lovers
publisher: Riverhead Books