This book is based on a revelation he had about the life he and his friends were leading. As their twenties wore on, he noticed that they weren't getting married and weren't recreating families.
Instead they were forming complex, intense networks of friendships that fulfil the role that extended families had performed for previous generations.
He adopted the phrase "urban tribe" and wrote a magazine article. Before he knew it, tribes from all over the world were beating a path to his web site and exclaiming: "That's us; that's our life!"
Given the easygoing West Coast lifestyle of his collection of lawyer, sculptor and web designer pals, some may see this as a production-line piece of zeitgeist sociology-lite. That would be unfair. This might be an impressionistic account, but it is shot through with honest self-questioning and a determination not to be precious about his lifestyle.
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