"I guess I felt, when I was writing this novel, that talent is this sort of interesting, strange, 'slippery' thing, as a character describes it in my novel. So maybe if you know someone who always was very, very good and serious at what they did, but it wasn't that kind of popping out of your guts, amazing talent that Ethan has. She's a theater director when she becomes an adult and she has a kind of subtler talent. And his wife is a very beautiful, lovely best friend of Jules. He becomes richer than, you know, anybody ever imagined. And he's an animator and he becomes a huge star. It's the kind of talent that you can't give or teach to anyone. He's one of those kids who just has a kind of brilliance that's there and is nurtured in his childhood. "Ethan Figman is the creative genius of this novel. On Ethan and Ash, the most successful of the friends But for her, acting is a kind of way into feeling, is a kind of way into personhood, into being who she ultimately will be."
And I've always felt, really looking back on the passions that people have when they're young: of course they should be supported in a huge way and not really have to dwell on will become a full career. They're good in the plays they put their heart into it, but they probably can't make a full life out of it. "She's one of those kids - and I was one of those kids, so I feel that I have a little right to know something about it - who have a kind of small amount of talent in this field, acting. They're all from New York City and she falls in them and feels as if she's discovering life. She describes them as being like 'French movie stars, with a touch of something papal.' They are so beyond anything that she's experienced in her life before. And when she gets there, she meets these other teenagers who seem, to her, so sophisticated. "She is a girl from the suburbs who has been plopped in the middle of this camp and doesn't really have a sense of herself yet. On Jules, one of the six friends, and why she doesn't pursue her artistic dream
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