{"product_id":"9781250872838-girls-they-write-songs-about-a-novel","title":"Bauer Carlene - Girls They Write Songs About A Novel - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A Must - Read at People Entertainment Weekly Nylon and Lit Hub Stylish reckless Glittering. Molly Young The New York Times A power ballad to female friendship Girls They Write Songs About is a thrumming searching novel about the bonds that shape us more than any love affair. We moved to New York to want undisturbed and unchecked. And what did we want? New York 1997. As the city's gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier two aspiring writers meet at a music magazine. Rose brash and self - possessed is a staff writer. Charlotte hesitant bookish is an editor. First wary then slowly admiring they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they re inseparable falling into the kind of friendship that makes every day an adventure and makes you believe that you will of course achieve extraordinary things. Together Charlotte and Rose find love and lose it; they hit their strides and stumble; they make choices and live past them. They say to each other Don t ever leave me. It's their favorite joke but they know that they could never say a truer thing. But then the steady beats of their sisterhood fall out of sync. They have seen each other through so much marriage motherhood divorce career glories and catastrophes a million small but necessary choices. What will it mean if they have to give up dreaming together? That the friendship that once made them sing out now shuts them down? And even if they can reconcile themselves to the lives they ve chosen can they make peace with the ones they didn t? As smart and comic as it is gloriously exuberant Carlene Bauer's Girls They Write Songs About takes a timeless story and turns it into a pulsing wrecking clear - eyed tale of two women reckoning with the loss of the friendship that helped define them and the countless ways all the women they ve known have made them who they are.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Girls They Write Songs About A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Bauer Carlene\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Picador\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781250872838\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 320 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 6\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Bauer Carlene","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49615031697713,"sku":"IN-G-9781250872838","price":16.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781250872838.jpg?v=1724468540","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781250872838-girls-they-write-songs-about-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}