Girls Our Age - by Phoebe Thompson

Book Synopsis

Three women navigate their late twenties together in a bittersweet novel about female friendship, identity, and growing up--from the hope and promise of college to the realities that lie beyond.

Lily, Ana, and Margot have been best friends ever since Hawthorne Res Life assigned them as roommates during their first year of college.

Ten years later and Lily is planning her wedding to the endlessly supportive and entirely symmetrical Jack. Ana is a fourth-grade teacher at the prestigious Horizon Academy, alma mater of her long-term boyfriend, who's finally asked her to move in. Margot is about to land a life-changing promotion at ad agency McQueen O'Doul.

It all looks good from here.

But when the three friends converge on Maine for the wedding, the real challenges they've been able to keep from each other begin to surface. It's finally time to open up about the very private struggles they've hidden for too long and the risks they've taken to protect themselves, and those they love, from the truth.

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Praise for Girls Our Age

"Nostalgic, aching, and sharply observed, Girls Our Age is a story about the friendships that shape us, the lives we think everyone else is living, and the quiet heartbreak of realizing we only ever see the polished version. With tender precision, Phoebe Thompson reminds us that girlhood never really leaves us and that the people who knew us then often know us best now." --Alissa DeRogatis, author of Call It What You Want

"Girls Our Age is full of heart, tenderness, and characters who are so lifelike they might as well be my own friend group, with all the struggles, doubts, and aches of twentysomething adulthood. Thompson's empathetic and riveting debut pulls on the heartstrings, will make you text your friends just to tell them how much you love them, and announces an exciting new voice in fiction." --Isabel Banta, author of Honey

"I see myself and my closest friends in the characters of Girls Our Age, an honest and gripping coming-of-age story about the ways that friendships bend and waver in your twenties, only to grow back stronger. I devoured this book, and I didn't want to say goodbye to Lily, Margot, and Ana!" --Morgan Pager, author of The Art of Vanishing