{"product_id":"girls-they-write-songs-about-book-carlene-bauer-9780374282264","title":"Girls They Write Songs about","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Must-Read at \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Stylish, reckless . . . Glittering.\" --Molly Young, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A power ballad to female friendship, \u003ci\u003eGirls They Write Songs About\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrumming, searching novel about the bonds that shape us more than any love affair.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe moved to New York to want undisturbed and unchecked. And what did we want?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As smart and comic as it is gloriously exuberant, Carlene Bauer's \u003ci\u003eGirls They Write Songs About\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49768336458001,"sku":"CIN0374282269VG","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350684406033,"sku":"CIN0374282269G","price":6.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51328728858897,"sku":"CIN0374282269A","price":5.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374282269.jpg?v=1750974881","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/girls-they-write-songs-about-book-carlene-bauer-9780374282264","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}