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Ecco
June 2016
On Sale: June 7, 2016
Featuring: Sarah; Lauren
304 pages
ISBN: 0062429930
EAN: 9780062429933
Kindle: B015CYFFDA
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Women's Fiction
This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives. One of Bustleโs 17 Of 2016โs Most Anticipated Books To Put On Your Wishlist Immediately One of the Wall Street Journalโs Ten Titles to Watch in Summer Fiction An Amazon Editorsโ Beach Reads pick One of Newsdayโs Best Summer Books 2016 One of PopSugarโs 31 Books You MUST Put in your Beach Bag A Miami Herald summer reads pick As close as sisters for twenty years, Sarah and Lauren have been together through high school and college, first jobs and first loves, the uncertainties of their twenties and the realities of their thirties. Sarah, the only child of a prominent intellectual and a socialite, works at a charity and is methodically planning her wedding. Laurenโbeautiful, independent, and unpredictableโis single and working in publishing, deflecting her parentsโ worries and questions about her life and future by trying not to think about it herself. Each woman enviesโand is horrified byโparticular aspects of the otherโs life, topics of conversation they avoid with masterful linguistic pirouettes. Once, Sarah and Lauren were inseparable; for a long a time now, theyโve been apart. Can two women who rarely see one other, selectively share secrets, and lead different lives still call themselves best friends? Is it their abiding connectionโor just force of habitโthat keeps them together? With impeccable style, biting humor, and a keen sense of detail, Rumaan Alam deftly explores how the attachments we form in childhood shift as we adapt to our adult livesโand how the bonds of friendship endure, even when our paths diverge.
 Media BuzzToday - June 28, 2016
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