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Ecco
June 2016
On Sale: June 7, 2016
Featuring: Sarah; Lauren
304 pages
ISBN: 0062429930
EAN: 9780062429933
Kindle: B015CYFFDA
Hardcover / e-Book
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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 Bustleβs 17 Of 2016βs Most Anticipated Books To Put On Your Wishlist Immediately One of the Wall Street Journalβs Ten Titles to Watch in Summer Fiction An Amazon Editorsβ Beach Reads pick One of Newsdayβs Best Summer Books 2016 One of PopSugarβs 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. Laurenβbeautiful, independent, and unpredictableβis single and working in publishing, deflecting her parentsβ worries and questions about her life and future by trying not to think about it herself. Each woman enviesβand is horrified byβparticular aspects of the otherβs life, topics of conversation they avoid with masterful linguistic pirouettes. Once, Sarah and Lauren were inseparable; for a long a time now, theyβve 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 connectionβor just force of habitβthat 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 livesβand how the bonds of friendship endure, even when our paths diverge.
 Media BuzzToday - June 28, 2016
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