15 Years of Summer Reading
What have our big
picks been for the best season in books? On our anniversary year, we look back
at great reads from the past decade and a half.
14 of 15
The Interestings
By Meg Wolitzer
480 pages;
Riverhead
2013
In Meg Wolitzer's lovely, wise
The Interestings, Julie Jacobson begins the summer of '74 as an outsider at arts camp until she is accepted into a clique of teenagers with whom she forms a lifelong bond. Through well-tuned drama and compassionate humor, Wolitzer chronicles the living organism that is friendship, and arcs it over the course of more than 30 years.
— Abbe Wright
Published 06/16/2013