This was a light read about some close college friends who are now very much grown up with children who are going off to college themselves. The friends have always been neighbors, always been close, and, perhaps, have always been a little too much into each other. There are quite a few unresolved issues from their past, but not all of them know about each other's issues - it's interesting that you can be so close and yet for so long keep such heavy secrets from/about each other. I enjoyed that as an insight to long term relationships... With the possibility of a biopic coming out about their one friend (band-mate) who made it big and died young, many of these secrets are coming to light. And the friends must work through these issues of the past while simultaneously fighting the issues of the present, possible divorces (either trying to avoid one or realizing that perhaps your marriage isn't as perfect as it seems), loss of personal direction, small tragedy, and the always present challenges of having children who are growing up into themselves (particularly once those children develop romantic feelings for each other). All in all, I feel like after reading this, I'm not sure how much even really happened. Everyone is almost in the exact same place at the end as they were when it started (at least physically) except the kids, which makes sense but is also makes a description of what happens in this book hard to write. It's a great character development story, with a lot of growing up for everyone, but very little actual plot movement. The author did a good job making it seem like things were moving forwards though, for all that. One thing that seemed weird to me was that each section started with a random newspaper clipping, which just seemed oddly out of place for me. At the end, these clippings were used as a sort of epilogue - mostly it seemed like a forced way to handle a wrap-up, not very natural, especially considering how surface level the info was compared with how deeply character-development-driven the novel was. Also, there were a few introspection moments from the characters that created big turning points emotionally that didn't seem quite realistic - they were conveniently timed and perhaps too understanding/"all-seeing." However, I did enjoy reading this book overall - it's a good "get lost in someone else's lives" summer read.