![]() ![]() One did, the person I dedicated the book to. I couldn’t bear to be without them.ĭid they become lifelong friends like your characters? I met these wonderful kids who are not the kids in the book but I met my own group of wonderful kids. I loved it so much there and it was the first time I got to take myself seriously. For me, the experience opened my life up to the fact that there’s a big wide world out there. ![]() If the summer camp experience hadn’t led to a lot of other thoughts I would never have written a book about it because it’s not a “summer camp” novel. You attended a summer camp like the characters in the book- is that what inspired this story? Wolitzer discussed the book and some of its themes with me. A look at talent and various means of success, “The Interestings” follows these characters to their late fifties. Jules, the initial outsider, is there on a scholarship but finds herself embraced by a circle of friends that open her world a little wider. Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, “The Interestings,” begins with a group of teenagers in a summer camp. ![]()
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