So Old, So Young
A Novel
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4.0 • 131 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Most Anticipated Novel of 2026 by Time, Town & Country, Bustle, and Zibby Media • A Best New Book by People, New York Post, Library Journal, and BookBub • February Book Club Pick by Good Housekeeping
“An instant classic.” —Esquire (Best Books of the Year)
Six Friends.
Five Parties.
Twenty Years…
How did we get So Old, So Young?
From Grant Ginder comes a funny, deeply moving novel of contemporary literary fiction following six college friends through five parties over twenty years, exploring lifelong friendship, romantic love, and the millennial growing pains that reshape their relationships along the way.
A generation-defining novel that is part love story, part tragic comedy. Five parties over the course of twenty years bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we run from and cling to our friends through love, life, and death.
Grant Ginder’s resonant, funny, and deeply moving novel is a story about the growing pains of the Millennial generation and a celebration of how lifelong friendship can shift, stumble, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A coming-of-age story chronicles how friendships survive in spite of themselves in this witty and affecting novel. A handful of twentysomething friends gather at a New Year’s Eve party where they celebrate the last minutes of 2007 with drink, drugs, hookups, and curiosity about where their lives and careers are going. Over the next two decades, we revisit the friends as they gather for weddings, vacation getaways, and unnecessarily complicated Halloween parties, utterly absorbed in their ever-changing lives. Marriage, parenthood, infidelity, and the distance between them all strain—but never break—their extraordinary bond. Author Grant Ginder captures the gradual onset of adulthood with a superb mix of laughter and drama. The characters in Ginder’s ensemble feel real, grounded, and utterly relatable, even (or perhaps especially) when they navigate wrong turns and bad decisions. While Xennials will especially appreciate the unmistakable time period, anyone who’s stumbled through the process of growing up will love So Old, So Young.
Customer Reviews
So relatable
Loved, loved!
Lack of connection
The way the story is broken up I didn’t feel a real connection to any character.