So Old, So Young
Grant Ginder
Six college friends, five parties, twenty years. Ginder does the whole messy arc of friendship — the clinging, the running, the losses — as part love story and part tragicomedy.
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1883 London, delivered as the wit-soaked diary of one very sharp young woman navigating eccentric relatives and odd neighbors. If you love Austen or Wodehouse, this is pure comfort reading.
Rules for Visiting
Jessica Francis Kane
A fortysomething university gardener, more comfortable with plants than people, sets out to reconnect in person with four old friends over the course of a year. Funny and quietly wise about friendship in the age of curated online lives.