"The Young and the Rest of Us" is a featured story from the Elizabeth Searle collection Celebrities in Disgrace. It is the poignant tale of two young sisters left isolated by tragedy and shattered dreams and the role television plays in their family's life.Inspired by a society obsessed with celebrities, in Celebrities in Disgrace, Elizabeth Searle explores the glittery-dark underworld of 'hopefuls,' those who have been given the slightest hint of success — or even imagined success — and who are hungry for an audience, of any size. Ranging from a woman's relentless pursuit to be an actress despite her tendency to faint onstage, to a disintegrating family who comes together if only to watch the imaginary lives in a soap opera, these stories capture the thrill and lure of fame and our insatiable need for it.Joanne Wilkinson of Booklist wrote: "In this vivid, distinctive short story collection, Searle has some disquieting things to say about the nature of fame and how it both feeds and distorts relationships. Searle, author of the acclaimed novel A Four-Sided Bed , is a skillful writer with a gift for creating atypical characters and themes..."