So Old, So Young

At twenty-two they are crowded into a cramped East Village apartment with cheap wine and the absolute certainty they will never let each other go. Six college friends, inseparable, invincible, on the edge of everything. Then life happens in five parties across twenty years, a disastrous destination wedding, a fortieth birthday, a suburban barbecue with kids running underfoot, new jobs and new cities and new loves rearranging the seating chart every time. Jobs change, marriages bend, old jokes land differently, and the easy closeness they swore would last starts to slip and strain. Funny and tender and a little bruised, this is the story of holding on and drifting off, and whether the people who knew you first can still recognize who you became.