![]() ![]() ★ “This memorable story about female friendships, silly bets, different kinds of love, and bad decisions is authentic in detail and emotion-another Stead hallmark.” ![]() Winsome, bighearted, and altogether rewarding.” ★ “Stead shows how strongly love of all kinds can smooth the juddering path toward adulthood. ★ “ captures the stomach-churning moments of a misstep or an unplanned betrayal and reworks these events with grace, humor, and polish into possibilities for kindness and redemption. ★ “The handing-down of advice and wisdom from older girls and women is a welcome theme throughout the book and far too rare in female coming-of-age stories it’s just one of many reasons this astonishingly profound novel is not your average middle-school friendship tale” This novel not only sensitively explores togetherness, aloneness, betrayal and love, it also acknowledges something crucial to the business of growing up: how anyone’s personal “we of me” might look different a little while from now, and later still, different again.” ![]()
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