Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees, 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”-deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Of course, Ellie cannot hide out for long, and all good things must end, even if they inconveniently end in a young man’s bed.Ī breezy, unremarkable comic romp with a comforting message of self-acceptance, offering a few poignant moments that underscore how far women have come in the past 50 years.įour men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions-as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer-and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. That gives the two a chance to bond as well, and come to terms with their own regrets.
Meanwhile, timid Frida and bossy Barbara experience a series of misfortunes while combing the streets in search of Ellie. She agrees, thrilled, not really sure what the boys these days expect on a first date. She also meets a cute guy, Zachary, who asks her out for the evening. She gets a cool haircut, buys a sexy dress and helps Lucy land a big sale for her fashion designs. Knowing that her daughter Barbara and best friend Frida would be harder sells (and killjoys), she ignores their increasingly alarmed phone messages and passes herself off as Lucy’s cousin. She then sets off for a day of adventure with Lucy, who takes very little convincing that the strange lady in her grandmother’s apartment is indeed her grandmother.
So when she wakes up the day after her birthday to find herself in her supple 29-year-old body, she takes it as a sign to do everything that she has long denied herself. Also, by living a few blocks away from her adored 25-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, Ellie is curious and a bit envious of the seemingly boundless opportunities modern young women enjoy. Her husband Howard was a prominent lawyer who kept his emotions-and his infidelities-under wraps. Still, she cannot shake the nagging feeling that she missed out on something by marrying so young. From Halpern ( The Ten Best Days of My Life, 2008, etc.), the story of a wealthy Philadelphia widow nostalgic for her youth who finds her wish granted after her 75th birthday.Įlegant, independent and devoted to her family, Ellie Jerome has much to be thankful for in her life.
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