The Girls
A Novel- By Lori Lansens
Full Description
Rarely has the experience of being a sister been so poignantly and memorably captured as in Lori Lansens's triumphant novel. The Girls celebrates life's fundamental joys and trials as it presents Rose and Ruby, sisters destined to live inseparably but blessed with distinct sensibilities that enrich and complicate their shared experiences-of growing up, of finding their way in the world, of saying good-bye.Readers who encounter the girls will find it hard to resist falling under their spell. ... more
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Critical Praise
"The Girls skillfully tackles a tricky subject with both laugh-out-loud humor and grace."
—Redbook
"A complex consideration of identity and individuality, of sameness and difference, of what it means to be normal and what it takes to feel at home in the world."
—Francine Prose, People
"Lansens, who has a gentle, open way of writing, makes of these two girls a kind of perfect marriage, harmonious and everlasting."
—Stacey D'Erasmo, New York Times Book Review
"This is not a book about the grotesque but a book about love, about being bound to someone else and accepting the situation gracefully, even gratefully."
—Malena Watrous, San Francisco Chronicle
"You won't pity the girls, but you'll feel richer for having seen their world."
—Glamour
- Category:
- FICTION
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 4/10/2007
- Price:
- $14.99/$0.00
- ISBN:
- 9780316066341
- Pages:
- 368
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
