Books: Beach Reads
Our summer picks for good reads on female friendship.
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- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
by Lorrie Moore
Berie recalls her teenage hero, Sils, and their summer spent working together at the second-rate theme park Storyland. - The Quick and the Dead
by Joy Williams
Three teenage girls befriend each other in a surreal Arizona desert. - Sula
by Toni Morrison
Two childhood friends meet again as disparate adults. - Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
Two masterworks from an expert on female resentment and machination. - The Group
by Mary McCarthy
Eight Vassar grads foray into adulthood with mixed results. - Emma
by Jane Austen
A classic tale of a classic busybody. - Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
Three starlets band together to tackle life at its trashiest. - The Rules of Engagement
by Anita Brookner
A cerebral take on womanly bonding in class-divided postwar London.
First published in FASHION Magazine June 2006
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