Beth Golay

And you tell me if I'm focusing on the wrong friends, because there were others beyond these.

But in my opinion, they're Marco, Mia, Sasha, Theo, Richie, and Adam.

Is that accurate?

That is accurate.

So what should we know about this friend group?

You know, I saw the words from the title about halfway through the book.

I think it was in one of Sasha's chapters.

She asked herself, how had she become so old, so young?

Talk to me about this title.

Did you play a role in choosing the title or is that a publisher thing?

I never know how that works.

You know, the book is about growing older, growing up, but it's also about how relationships change and how we change.

What made you want to explore this shift about how friendships might change?

So the format of this book is really interesting.

As you mentioned, it dips into five parties over the span of 20 years.

When writing this, how did you determine like the dates, the years that these events would take place?

How did you decide?

I think I'll drop in right here.

I also loved how you paid attention to what was happening in the world at that time, whether it was the music they were listening to or what politicians were doing what where.

So that also kind of helped place the characters for me.