2019: I greatly enjoyed inhabiting this world created by Wolitzer, but I think that’s mostly because I am a reasonably well off white woman who lives in New York City and spent time at a summer camp for the arts when I was young. If you want to read a book about exactly that (and her other, well off, artsy New Yorker friends who never actually get what they want) then this is the book for you. But I very much liked that world and how the characters were unsatisfied with it, and would revisit if I could.