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Friendship
Written by Emily Gould
Narrated by Amy Rubinate
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Bev Tunney and Amy Schein have been best friends for years; now, at thirty, they're at a crossroads. Bev is a Midwestern striver still mourning a years-old romantic catastrophe. Amy is an East Coast princess whose luck and charm have too long allowed her to cruise through life. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would have barely passed for bohemian in her mid-twenties. Amy is still riding the tailwinds of her early success, but her habit of burning bridges is finally catching up to her. And now Bev is pregnant. As Bev and Amy are dragged, kicking and screaming, into real adulthood, they have to face the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart.
Friendship, Emily Gould's debut novel, traces the evolution of a friendship with humor and wry sympathy. This is a story about the way we speak and live today, about the ways we disappoint and betray one another. At once a meditation on the modern meaning of maturity and a timeless portrait of the underexamined bond that exists between friends, this exacting and truthful novel is a revelation.
Author
Emily Gould
Emily Gould is the author of the novels Perfect Tunes, Friendship, and the essay collection And the Heart Says Whatever. With Ruth Curry, she runs Emily Books, which publishes books by women as an imprint of Coffee House Press. She has written for The New York Times, New York, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and many other publications. She lives in New York City with her family.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The chick-litt-iest book I've read in a while. Enjoyable enough, for a book about motherhood, not too wholesome and enough cynicism.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/52-1/2 stars, really. This is one of those books that made me feel old. The protagonists, Bev and Amy are 30, living in NYC, and avoiding adulthood. Renting lofts and bouncing around temp jobs and various tech pseudo jobs where they get paid to Gchat and tweet, the two women are usually a paycheck away from eviction or couch surfing. Their ambivalence about this and their lack of direction is what makes me feel old. Their friendship is charming, even enviable as they are so sympatico, yet often brutally honest with each other. However, when the friendship is tested by adult circumstances (unplanned pregnancy), then things begin to unravel. A subplot develops with an older, childless woman who is interested in part-time motherhood (whatever that is!) While I generally liked the 2 main characters, I just couldn't relate.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Enjoyable read. Like that it passes the Bechdel Test. Parts of it hit really close to home on an uncomfortable level, me being in somewhat of the same boat as Amy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very short book and very well written. It makes a great interlude reading experience between longer books, like a tiny delicious morsel. I enjoyed it and would recommend it easily to a friend.