Girls they write songs about

New York, 1997. As the city's gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two girls meet at a music magazine. Rose--brash and self-possessed--is a staff writer. Charlotte--hesitant, bookish-- is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an i...

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Main Author: Bauer, Carlene (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: New York, 1997. As the city's gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two girls meet at a music magazine. Rose--brash and self-possessed--is a staff writer. Charlotte--hesitant, bookish-- is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they're inseparable, falling into the kind of friendship that makes you better, makes every day an adventure, and makes you believe that you will be extraordinary. Together, Charlotte and Rose find love and lose it; they hit their strides and stumble; they make choices and live past them. But then the steady beats in their sisterhood fall out of sync. They have seen each other through so much--marriage, motherhood, divorce, career glories and catastrophes, a million small but necessary choices--what will it mean to give up their dreaming together? That the friendship that once made them sing out shuts them down? And even if they can reconcile themselves to the lives they're living, can they survive the ones they didn't?
Physical Description: 308 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780374282264
0374282269
Author Notes: Carlene Bauer is the author of the memoir Not That Kind of Girl and the novel Frances and Bernard . Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books , the Virginia Quarterly Review , n+1 , The New York Times Book Review , Elle , and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.