These Girls
by Sarah Pekkanen
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Critic Rating
72%
Critic Reviews: 12
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50%
Reader Ratings: 197
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Synopsis
Family secrets may shape us all, but it’s the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance. Cate has just been named the features editor of Gloss, a high-end lifestyle magazine. It’s a professional coup, but her new job comes with more complications than Cate ever anticipated. Her... more
About Sarah Pekkanen
- All Critics: 12
- Positive: 11
- Negative: 1
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The Washington Post | 2 May 2012
The novel’s lack of conflict makes sections of “These Girls” read as blandly as a feature on “Six Reasons to Moisturize.”
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Write Meg | 26 Apr 2012
These Girls is a strong, well-paced book that dropped me off far from where I’d started. And I dug it.
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Peeking Between the Pages | 19 Apr 2012
I loved this book and can’t wait to read more of Sarah’s work!
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She Reads | 10 Apr 2012
If you enjoy books that highlight the amazing resiliency of women’s friendships, this is definitely the book for you. It’s gentle without being sugar coated, and Pekkanen has a way of making her story extremely relevant for women of all ages.
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My Friend Amy | 17 Apr 2012
These Girls is a nice read about professional women at a crossroads in their lives.
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Stiletto Storytime | 10 Apr 2012
Fresh, surprising and as always innovative These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen is a novel to be shared with best friends and talked over late into the night.
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S. Krishna's Books | 10 Apr 2012
These Girls is an enjoyable novel that readers will likely want to devour in one sitting.
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Hello Beautiful | 12 Apr 2012
Pekkanen’s THESE GIRLS is an exceptionally compelling, reflective, richly woven story about three women who find themselves in crisis yet together, emerge as triumphant, strong, and resilient, ready to tackle whatever the world has in store for them.
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Washington Independent Review of Books | 1 May 2012
Overall, These Girls is refreshing in that it prioritizes friendship over romance, and in the gravity of the issues with which it grapples.
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Library of Clean Reads | 30 Apr 2012
If you like contemporary fiction with an emphasis on women's relationships, Pekkanen delivers a heartfelt rendition of three young women and their journeys to personal and professional happiness
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Devourer of Books | 9 Apr 2012
These Girls sweeps the reader up into Cate, Renee, and Abby’s world, to the point where their pain will, to some extent be the reader’s own pain.
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