The New York Times called Susanna Sonnenberg βimmensely gifted,β and Vogue, βscrupulously unsentimental.β Entertainment Weekly described Sonnenbergβs Her Last Death as βa bracing memoir about growing up rich and glamorous with a savagely inappropriate mother.β Now, Sonnenberg, with her unflinching eye and uncanny wisdom, has written a compulsively readable book about female friendship.
T he best friend who broke up with you. The older girl at school you worshipped. The beloved college friend who changed. The friend you slept with. The friend who betrayed you. The friend you betrayed. Companions in travel, in discovery, in motherhood, in grief; the mentor, the model, the rescuer, the guide, the little sister. These have been the women in Susanna Sonnenbergβs life, friends tender, dominant, and crucial after her reckless mother gave her early lessons in womanhood.
Searing and superbly written, Sonnenbergβs She Matters: A Life in Friendships illuminates the friendships that have influenced, nourished, inspired, and haunted herβand sometimes torn her apart. Each has its own lessons that Sonnenberg seeks to understand. Her method is investigative and ruminative; her result, fearlessly observed portraits of friendships that will inspire all readers to consider the complexities of their own relationships. This electric book is testimony to the emotional significance of the intense bonds between women, whether shattered, shaky, or unbreakable.
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