Those Girls

by Lauren Saft Narrated by Analysa Gregory, Casey Holloway, Amy Tallmadge

Overview

Some girls will always have your back, and some girls can't help but stab you in it.

Junior year, the suburbs of Philadelphia. Alex, Mollie and Veronica are those girls: They're the best of friends and the party girls of the school. But how well does everybody know them--and really, how well do they know one another? Alex is secretly in love with the boy next door and has joined a band--without telling anyone. Mollie suffers from a popular (and possibly sociopathic) boyfriend and a serious mean streak. And Veronica just wants to be loved--literally, figuratively, physically...she's not particular. Will this be the year that bonds them forever or tears them apart for good?

In a debut novel that is raw, honest, hilarious, and thought-provoking, Lauren Saft masterfully conveys what goes on in the mind of a teenage girl and how often even the closest of friends walk the thin line between love and hate.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Praise for Those Girls:
"In this debut novel, Saft gives readers a look at the complicated relationships between high school girlfriends. The female characters she crafts are complex."—SLJ

"Saft has captured the darker side of female friendship and the redemption of forgiveness. Hand to fans of edgy chick lit."—Booklist

"I read Those Girls the way you accidentally binge-watch a great TV show - I always had to know what happened next. Lauren Saft's debut novel is smart, funny, and raw, and I can't wait for more people to read it so we can talk about it."—New York Times bestselling author Sarah Mlynowski

"Those Girls spills over with secrets, backbiting, and messy, messy love. Saft doesn't back away from the ugly truths and the beautiful complexities of female friendships. She simply tells it exactly like it is."—Siobhan Vivian, author of The List

Kirkus Reviews

2015-04-01
Three best friends alternate narration of their junior year of high school as they explore sex, romance, and independence. Each teen clearly represents a high school stock character—Alex: tomboy with a secret crush on her best male friend; Veronica: proudly promiscuous; and Mollie: willing to sacrifice her sense of self to keep her athlete boyfriend. Outwardly each teen embraces her role in the trio—Veronica's quick laughter at the slut-shaming jokes her best friends lob at her is actively painful. But the characters transcend stereotypes when their private narrations reveal each girl's discomfort with her assigned social position in the trio and in the school's social hierarchy. Their inner musings about the secret jealousies and hurt feelings that exist among the trio combine with the girls' independent and collective confusion about acceptable sexual roles for women for a disheartening window into modern teens' identity dilemmas. Unfortunately, after creating interesting characters, Saft forces the trio into a soap opera of secret sexual dalliances with one another's boyfriends. Eventually a revenge plot involves two of the girls slipping their friend a roofie, after which she is almost sexually assaulted by a teacher. This chilling attempted sexual violence is too easily dismissed during the girls' quick reconciliation. Saft's debut develops admirably complex characters but then fails to deliver a plot worthy of them. (Fiction. 14-18)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169974928
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

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