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A moving, witty, and intelligent memoir of one woman's quest to find the answers to life's biggest questionsRaised in evangelical churches that preached apocalypse now, Carlene Bauer grows up happy to oblige the God who presides over her New Jersey girlhood. But in high school and college, her intellectual and spiritual horizons widen, and she becomes skeptical of the judgmental God she's been given. Still, she finds it hard to let go of the i...

Glittering . . . A love story about two friends [and] . . . the cycles of enchantment, disenchantment and re-enchantment that make up a life." -Molly Young, The New York TimesA 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 edge...

An unforgettable power ballad to female friendship, set on the thrumming streets of 1990s New York

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An unforgettable power ballad to female friendship, set on the thrumming streets of 1990s New York

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 girls meet at a music magazine. Rose-brash and self-possessed-is a staff writer. Charlotte-hesitant, bookish- is an...

Raised in evangelical churches that preach apocalypse now, Carlene Bauer grows up happy to oblige the God who presides over her New Jersey girlhood. But in high school and in college, her intellectual and spiritual horizons widen, though still she finds it hard to let go of her ingrained ideals and to rebel as she knows she should. She loves rock 'n' roll but politely declines offers of sex and drugs, and hovers between a hunger for the world ...

Frances and Bernard meet in the summer of 1957. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can change the course of our lives.They find their way to New York and, for a few whirling years, each other. The city is a wonderland for young people with dreams: cramped West Village kitchens, parties stocked with the sharp-witted and glamorous, taxis that can take you anywhere at all, long talk...

It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard. But after that first meeting, Bernard writes Frances a letter which changes everything and soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can alter the course of lives.

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