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    The Myth of You and Me: A Novel

    Written by Leah Stewart

    Narrated by Staci Snell

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    Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.

    When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.

    When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half.

    The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia’s friendship—as intense as any love affair—and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 20, 2005
    ISBN9781415928615
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    The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
    Author

    Leah Stewart

    Leah Stewart is the author of the novels The Myth of You and Me and Body of a Girl. A recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship, she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and their two young children. She teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.

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    Reviews for The Myth of You and Me

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    • 4/5
      This is a story about friendship Cameron and Sonia are best friends when they are younger. An incident in their youth changes that. Thirty years later, Cameron is sent to track down Sonia and make amends. Cameron has no ties to anyone and doesn't feel the need to find Sonia, but it is her employer's last wish and she must honor that. A book that captures the sense of loss one feels when losing a close friend.
    • 4/5
      Oh Camazon, I actually really didn't like you as a person. You are everything I am not in a lot of ways, and I had a hard time relating. In a some ways it's why I liked the book too, to change how I think about life and love and see a really complex friendship from another angle. Good story, even if I felt it dragged a tag from the get go.
    • 3/5
      story about friendship, love and loss.
    • 3/5
      Overall it was an okay book, I tired of Cameron and her whining at times and it did seem to repeat the same situations often. Nice twist at the end.
    • 3/5
      Not a book I would have picked out necessarily, but I liked the main character and her perspective on things. Really does make you recall childhood "best friends" with fondness, those were friendships like no other and the author did a wonderful job of reminding us of that.
    • 5/5
      You know, I really wish there are half stars, I would have done a 4.5. But it was the end that really got me. I felt most of the friendship between the main character and her best friend was a typical story, but it was really the end that got me. For some reason it just struck a chord with me. And then the last page just set it apart from all the usual stories. Loved it.
    • 3/5
      I have to agree with another reviewer, Ainsley, who said:

      "This might've had a shot at a 4 until Cameron read Oliver's letter. Then it was allll over."

      Exactly how I felt.
    • 5/5
      I have literally been wracking my brain for a way to write this review. I loved The Myth of You and Me. I guess that's why this review has been so hard for me to write. It's easier to just rip apart a book you completely hate and words come to you so easily when you try to do that. It's also easier to write a review if you liked a book you really expected not to like. I had a feeling I was going to love The Myth of You and Me, so the element of surprise that comes from loving a book you would never have read on your own in a million years, was not really present for me. My point is is that The Myth of You and Me was a wonderful novel. In The Myth of You and Me, you're intrigued from the first page. Throwing a mystery at the beginning of the book is a sure-fire way to keep readers reading even if they hate a book because they're curious as to what the hell happened. That's what happened with me. I didn't at all hate this book, but if I'd had, I still would've kept reading because I needed to know what exactly caused the rift between Cameron and Sonia. While she's telling the story, Leah Stewart, weaves in flashback scenes of the friendship between Cameron and Sonia and we readers start getting a sense as to how strong their friendship was. That intrigues us more as we start to think "It must've been something huge that caused this". The Myth of You and Me sort of exemplifies that while strong friendships really do exist, it can take something small (or not so small) to put a kink in the armor, so to speak. Friendships are strong yet completely fragile. I really got a sense of that in this book. When it comes to the secondary characters, I found that they were also extremely interesting. Although, Sonia's mother really takes the cake for "Most mysterious/weird Character Ever". The psychology major in me really wanted to know more about her and why exactly she was the way she was. Granted I understood that while she was a major character, she wasn't really a focal point in the whole book, so I could forgive that air of mystery that particular plot point left. So, The Myth of You and Me was an amazing book. It was an extreme page-turner (I literally read it in one sitting) and I thought that it explored Cameron and Sonia's friendship extremely well. We got to know these women separately and as a whole and how their friendship and the consequent "breaking-up" shaped their futures and the way the were now in the present tense. The Myth of Me and You is highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      story about friendship, love and loss.
    • 4/5
      Beautiful piece of woman's lit with believable flawed characters and fabulous narrative. Cameron and Sonia were best friends throughout high school and college, but something changed along the way and now Cameron is forced to revisit her memories of Sonia and how they can possibly fit into her life now. The audio of this title is wonderful which made the many nuggets of insight sounds so true that they beg to be written on a plaque or discussed at length over coffee. (Can you really ever only tell the piece of a story even when you know the end, the bad end, was how it all ended up or does that memory essentially contain all that came after? ) Highly recommended!
    • 3/5
      I'd give it 3.5 stars if I could. I was entralled while I was reading it, but now several months later I'm having a hard time remembering how great it was. A great story of the intricacies of women's friendships.
    • 5/5
      Explores the passion of female friendships that develop in the teenage years with a great narrative hook, a believable romance and well-rounded and very human characters. After I read this, I had to share it with my two best friends.
    • 3/5
      I am not sure what to think of this book to be honest. I know I didn't like the ending. I guess I should have thought it would be something like it was, tying in the whole "myth" theme. I did however like the whole idea that relationships with people who have ended are almost like myths. How do we know they really existed sometimes? I have often had that same feeling of people in my past, thinking, maybe I just made them up?I did however, also like the characters. Sonia's mother in particular I thought was a really fascinating character and so was the relationship between Sonia and her mother. I thought that was a fantastic part of this book. I hated however, that this book didn't focus more on the relationship more between the two main characters. Why do men always have to be involved? Does it always have to be about them? It made it feel too "chick-lit-y" for me. The plot was pretty good and the mystery of it all kept me reading. I really wanted to know what was in the package. I was sadly disappointed by what was in it, though. The ending was more of a let down than anything, I guess. But it wasn't half-bad. But it wasn't anything to write home about either.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book and finished it in a day and a half. It made me feel as if I was back in high school .I was glad that Cameron could finally face Sophia and their past as well as admit her love for Will and run away from things.
    • 3/5
      I've decided that this book doesn't fit my definition of chick lit, and categorized it as contemporary fiction instead. It's not intersperced with funny narration, keeping a rather serious tone throughout, and, to me, this makes it fall outside the realm of chick lit. The plot and characters, however, would have fit the chick lit mold without constraint. This is a reminiscence by Cameron, about her years being best friends with Sonia, and how that friendship came to an end. The book opens with Cameron, working as a live-in assistant to an elderly historian, receiving a letter from Sonia, after many years of mutual silence. Mutual silence that resulted from a major event that put a definite end to their friendship. That much Cameron can tell Oliver, but no more.Momentarily, when Cameron receives the letter, she thinks she's written it herself, as it appears to be in her hand-writing. Then she remembers how Sonia and she trained themselves to have matching hand-writing. In this letter, Sonia invites Cameron to her wedding. Cameron leaves the letter unanswered.Some time later, Oliver passes away. Cameron has lived with him for three years and he has become her family, in many ways. She is saddened and shaken by the death.Oliver has left her a task to accomplish after his passing. He requests, in a letter she finds, that she deliver a gift to Sonia, for her wedding.Cameron reluctantly agrees. She has no plans for what comes next. And she feels compelled to follow Oliver's instructions.The novel progresses between Cameron's present search for Sonia, as she attempts to deliver Oliver's present to her, and her memories of her friendship with Sonia.She and and Sonia became friends their first year of high school, and right from the start, Cameron has been witness to Sonia's two biggest secrets: her inability to read numbers and her mother's abuse of her, both mental and physical.And so it goes, back and forth, culminating in the events that put an end to the friendship in the past and in a reunion in the present. Finally, when Cameron has found Sonia, they open Oliver's gift and find it is a letter to Cameron, in which Oliver reveals a life-changing event of his own to Cameron. I suppose the book's main message goes to the consequences of deliberately leaving a portion of your past behind you, with the intention of never looking back.This book is pretty well done. I did find it slow for the first half or so, often finding that my mind had wandered and that I needed to re-read a page because of it.And like I said, I didn't consider this chick lit (and I wanted it to be chick lit) so I wasn't as fond of the serious tone as I am of the chick lit books that takes serious events and serious themes and include a lighter, funnier spin on them without making light of big topics.In the end, I felt like this novel was trying to convey a Big Message that I may not have entirely gotten. For example, Sonia seems to thinks that Cameron is fundamentally someone who can leave people behind rather than stick around and cope with the obstacles, based on what happened between them. I am rather of the school of thought that one incident does not create a pattern.
    • 3/5
      Not bad - a well paced story with a great central character. An excellent look into friendships and why they dissolve.
    • 4/5
      Quite good until the end - about two best friends who became estranged when they slept with each others' boyfriends.
    • 5/5
      Cameron has been taking care of Oliver, an elderly writer. And she's also been estranged from her best friend Sonia for a number of years. They were as close as you could get, but an incident that occured at the end of college destroyed their friendship. Now, in the present day, Cameron recieves a letter from Sonia. Cameron is unsure of what she should do. But a series of events propels Cameron towards Sonia...Will she find her? Will she be happy if she does? This book was powerful, beautiful and refreshing. I really enjoyed it. I recommend it wholeheartedly
    • 4/5
      good story about two friends, who eventually find each other again.
    • 5/5
      My latest favorite book! I can't tell you how people I have recommended this title to. A good, gentle, deep, and touching read, this book illustrates what it is like to have a best friend and what it is like to lose that friend after so many years. What is it like to reconnect with that friend? This book explains one possible outcome.
    • 3/5
      Total chick lit! Not badly written chick lit, except for the beginning (which I found to be incredibly cliche) and the random love interest inserted in the middle.
    • 3/5
      "Cameron and Sonia were best friends, now they don't speak. The Myth of You and Me tells the story of the friendship, the event that caused the split, and the aftermath. If you have ever had a friendship end abruptly, badly, or sadly, you will understand the anger, the pain and the love in this book."
    • 5/5
      Amazing! It brought back memories of girlhood and made miss best friends past.
    • 4/5
      This was a book about friendship, and heartache, and what happens when those friendships fracture. This story beautifully examines the intense relationship between girls who are best-friends, and what happens as they mature together. This book captures the raw emotions of young women who feel betrayed by those that are closest to them, and relates how our experiences as young girls color our lives as grown women.From the Publisher:When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half. The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia’s friendship—as intense as any love affair—and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship. Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.Why I Like/Didn't Like the Book:I liked this book because it brought back memories of my girlfriends from elementary school and junior high - how you would share your most intimate secrets and bruise at the slightest perceived insult. It becomes rare to have such a passionate plutonic relationship as you get older, you become more jaded, and protective, and this book illustrates how those first friendships can continue to influence us into our later years. A wonderfully written book!
    • 3/5
      Cameron is a woman used to being on her own. Or is she? Sonia was her tried and true best friend. So why was it so easy to leave Sonia at a gas station on the interstate?

      Interesting book, interesting characters, and a premise that happens to us all: the loss of a friendship. I liked the book, found it very easy to read, but it didn't engage me enough to give it 4 stars.
    • 4/5
      Not a bad read, although somewhat contrived in many ways. I really prefer a more realistic story, but this book does have some good elements. I liked the relationship development aspects, looking at what makes people as they are and what draws people together. The aspect which did not appeal was the mysterious trail of clues left by Sonia so her old friend Cameron could find her. I did like the first part in which the old man and young woman lived together.
    • 3/5
      When you are a teenager you think every event is dramatic, every disappointment is earth shattering, every love is your forever love but life soon teaches you that’s not the case. The one belief you want to hold on to more than any other is that your best friend will be your best friend for life. For those of us who are fortunate that does turn out to be the case, but not so for Cameron and Sonia. Sure they would be friends forever it turns out that love and infidelity tear them apart. When Cameron’s beloved, but eccentric, employer dies he leaves her a package with the directions that it is to be hand delivered to Sonia. He is hoping that finding each other again will reignite their friendship.

      This book is full of the secrets, insecurities and foibles of having a best friend and the honesty of how it feels when that friendship is lost and life carries on. It was an interesting story, well written and enjoyably readable.
    • 4/5
      This was an enjoyable enough book, although I think ultimately it won't stick with me for very long. It's a story about a childhood & then young adult friendship gone awry. The main character, Cameron, ends up hunting down her long lost friend after her elder boss & historian, Oliver, sends her on a quest to find her after his death, in order to deliver a mysterious package. It's somewhat predictable in that Cameron goes through a period of self-discovery and ultimately does track down her friend. I listened to this on audio, an abridged version, and in this case, while I got the basic gist of it, I think an unabridged reading would have given me a more full appreciation of the story.
    • 3/5
      This book was about childhood friendships. It was slow at times but did pick up at the end of the book.
    • 4/5
      This wonderful book was my reward for slogging through two very un-wonderful books lately. I swear, it's all about the book karma. It was a quick read; I couldn't put it down & unfortunately, that made it pass far too quickly. I'm pretty sure this book is going to move into my rotation of "comfort reads", along with other favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Happy All the Time.