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The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are 35,000 feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent 40 years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop.

The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age 15 is not always enough to propel someone through life at age 30; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence.

In 1975 Paul and Roz Mellow wrote a best-selling Joy of Sex-type book that mortified their four school-aged children and ultimately changed the shape of the family forever. Thirty years later, as the now dispersed family members argue over whether to reissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children and their conflicts in love, work, marriage, parenting, and, of course, sex - all shadowed by the indelible specter of their highly sexualized parents.

For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left prestigious jobs to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a decade. Now, at age 40, with the halcyon days of young motherhood behind them and without professions to define them, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen face a life that is not what they were brought up to expect but seems to be the one they have chosen.

To be admired by someone we admire - we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at 63, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world.

When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata—the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war—a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one, throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don’t really understand.

If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be at home in New Jersey with her sweet British boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She'd be watching old comedy sketches with him. She'd be kissing him in the library stacks. She certainly wouldn't be at The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in rural Vermont, living with a weird roommate, and signed up for an exclusive, mysterious class called Special Topics in English. But life isn't fair, and Reeve Maxfield is dead.

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both 12 years old and are both being raised by single, gay dads. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. Their dads hope they will find common ground and become friends - and possibly, one day, even sisters.

Der Handel einer Ehe. Als Joan Castleman beschließt, ihren Mann zu verlassen, befinden sie sich gerade 10.000 Meter über dem Meer auf dem Flug nach Helsinki. Joans Mann Joseph ist ein berühmter amerikanischer Schriftsteller, dem ein angesehener Literaturpreis verliehen werden soll. Joan selbst hat 40 Jahre lang ihr eigenes schriftstellerisches Talent für die Karriere ihres Mannes verleugnet. Damit soll jetzt Schluss sein.

Das neue Jugendbuch von Meg Wolitzer. Avery Bloom, ein ernsthafter Bücherwurm, voll "exzessiver Ängste", insbesondere vor Gewässern und Hunden, lebt in New York. Bett Devlin, eine furchtlose, extrovertierte Surferin, liebt Tiere aller Art und wohnt in Kalifornien. Gemeinsam haben die beiden Mädchen nur ihr Alter von 12 Jahren und ihre alleinerziehenden schwulen Väter. Als die Töchter erfahren, dass sie gegen ihren Willen in ein Sommerlager gesteckt werden sollen um Freundinnen zu werden und damit ihre Väter sich auf einer Motorrad-Reise in China besser kennenlernen können, beginnen Bett und Avery sich per E-Mail auszutauschen.

Der Handel einer Ehe. Als Joan Castleman beschließt, ihren Mann zu verlassen, befinden sie sich gerade 10.000 Meter über dem Meer auf dem Flug nach Helsinki. Joans Mann Joseph ist ein berühmter amerikanischer Schriftsteller, dem ein angesehener Literaturpreis verliehen werden soll. Joan selbst hat 40 Jahre lang ihr eigenes schriftstellerisches Talent für die Karriere ihres Mannes verleugnet. Damit soll jetzt Schluss sein.