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Hardcover:
9781101875773 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 24, 2016, cover price $24.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781681680460 | Highbridge Co, May 24, 2016, cover price $34.99
âWhy did Lorrie Ann look graceful in beat-up Keds and shorts a bit too small for her? Why was it charming when she snorted from laughing too hard? Yes, we were jealous of her, and yet we did not hate her. She was never so much as teased by us, we roaming and bratty girls of Corona del Mar, thieves of corn nuts and orange soda, abusers of lip gloss and foul language.â Â An astonishing debut about friendships made in youth, The Girls from Corona del Mar is a fiercely beautiful novel about how these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or endure. Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but canât quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friendâs life. Then a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, and then fall furtherâand there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, brave, fair Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is, and what that question means about them both. A staggeringly honest, deeply felt novel of family, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth of the perfect friendship, The Girls from Corona del Mar asks just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children, and who we are without our friends.
Hardcover:
9780385351966 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 8, 2014, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9780804170079 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 9, 2015), cover price $14.95
9780091954208 | Gardners Books, August 14, 2014, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: âWhy did Lorrie Ann look graceful in beat-up Keds and shorts a bit too small for her?
CD/Spoken Word:
9780804191388 | Unabridged edition (Random House, July 8, 2014), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: âWhy did Lorrie Ann look graceful in beat-up Keds and shorts a bit too small for her?
Library:
9781628993578 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, November 1, 2014), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann.
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