A review by kim_j_dare
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

4.0

A sprawling tale of friendship and all that it entails, following the lives of Jules, Ash, and Ethan from their teens through their early 50's. The last line of the book encapsulates the overall momentum of the narrative, describing the world as "an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting."
But don't let knowing the last sentence stop you from reading all that comes before... the characters truly are some "interestings" you'll be happy that you met.