It suddenly was very cool to live in Brooklyn. After
finishing Oberlin it would’ve been a dream to live in NYC but their budgets
were tight in the eighties. When Zoe’s disco LA parents invested in a big old
house on the outskirts of town, Elizabeth and Andrew jumped at the chance to
all live together once again. And it is on this street that their lives
spiraled forward into the future they could have never imagined. In college
this crew were a hip band playing all the parties but as years flew by they
simmered down to the reality of just playing grown-ups. Elizabeth and Andrew married
young, moved down the street and were raising their son, Harry. She focused on
her career as a realtor with the patience of a saint, while Andrew focused really
really hard on trying to find himself. Having come from a childhood of wealth,
he now preferred the bohemian lifestyle (with the money in the bank as a back-up,
of course.) Zoe married Jane, the one who lasted more than six months and they
were busily running a neighborhood restaurant and raising their gorgeous
daughter Ruby. What a fun adventure to follow these vivid, humorous, playful characters
through the motions as they try to figure out where the years have gone. How
did they actually have teenagers who were smoking, having wild sex and
preparing to leave home. How did they, the cool ones, become the parents with
rules and restrictions. They had a hit song! They were once the “it” crowd. I
thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend this fabulous beach read, another hit
by author @emmastraub! So much fun to get lost in the world of Modern Lovers
and simultaneously reflect. How can my kids be starting college, when I just
graduated … like yesterday?
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