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Friendship (2014)

by Emily Gould(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374158614 (ISBN13: 9780374158613)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: I enjoyed this novel by former Gawker blogger and current e-bookstore owner Emily Gould. Basically, it's a novel about women who have adulthood thrust on them in traumatic ways. [Potential Spoiler Alert] One woman gets pregnant accidentally and the other quits her job in a rush without having anything else lined up. I enjoyed the first half more than the last, and I didn't like the third character who was supposed to resemble "adulthood." I felt like [spoiler alert] the breakup of the friendship was not convincing, unfortunately, and that ruined the realism. But I did like it more than I did not like it so I would recommend it. Gould is a fine writer, especially in the way she describes things and keeps plots moving at a quick pace.
review 2: I flipped back and... more forth between thinking this novel contained some of the most honest insights of female friendship I've ever read and feeling so irritated by the characters' horrible decisions that I wanted to throw the book across the room. It's probably an all-too-accurate portrayal of how my generation has had a REALLY difficult time turning into grown-ups, but at one point I thought I was reading about two young women making stupid decisions when they were 22, when they were actually 30. Oh. By then you should probably know better than to walk out of a job when you're broke and don't have a back-up plan or to get blind drunk and have sex with a stranger and end up pregnant. That's just my crabby opinion, but the characters do come off as self-absorbed and clueless for most of the book. But Amy and Bev's internal monologues about jealousy and loneliness ring true. In the end they do figure out how to grow up, at least a little bit, and to appreciate a true friendship. I would categorize this as "new adult fiction" since readers in their college and post-college years will relate the most to the characters' struggles to figure out their life paths. less

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