Grant Ginder

I do.

I do.

I would say that it is the big chill for the millennial generation.

The book follows six friends over the course of 20 years.

But the catch is that we only see those friends at five parties over the course of those two decades.

So we catch up with them in these quick bursts as they stumble through adulthood.

Perfect.

Sure.

So this is a friend group that met in college by and large at the University of Pennsylvania.

They graduate in 2006.

So right before the Great Recession, they're full of hope, they are full of life, and they intersect each other's lives throughout the 20 years and have to reckon with

experiences like getting married and having kids and getting older and what effect those decisions have on their friendships.

The title came about through some brainstorming sessions with my editor.

And, you know, that feeling of being so old, so young is one that I think when you look around, particularly at millennials right now, we're first starting to reckon with, which is why I say the novel is sort of like our big chill moment, right?

I think everyone's had the experience of kind of like waking up one day and being like, how am I not 22 any longer?

I remember when I sat down and first started writing the book, I was having that experience.

I would wake up literally the middle of the night, look around my apartment, see my husband and be like, I can't figure out how I got to this exact moment in time.

I was literally just graduating college and now I have a marriage and a mortgage and a 401k and very bad plantar fasciitis.

And when did that happen?

And so the novel...