Best Friends Forever
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Jennifer Weiner, author of Good in Bed,In Her Shoes and the forthcoming Who DoYou Love, explores the nuances of female friendship with relish...
Addie Downs and Valerie Adler were eight when they first met and decided to be
best friends forever. But, in the wake of tragedy and betrayal during their teenage years, everything changed.
Val went on to fame and fortune. Addie stayed behind in their small Midwestern
town.
Destiny, however, had more in store for these two. And when, twenty-five years later, Val shows up at Addie's front door with blood on her coat and terror on her face, it is the start of a wild adventure for two women joined by love and history who find strength together that they could not find alone.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chick lit doyenne Weiner offers airtight proof that the genre thrives with this clever, sad and sweet turn on Thelma and Louise style rage. Juggling the politics of broken families, heartbreaking betrayal and shaky self-esteem, two girlhood pals ugly duckling Addie and wounded beauty Valerie reconnect after their high school reunion, where Valerie exacts a long-in-coming revenge on smug former beau Dan Swansea. But the payback gets more complicated when police chief Jordan Novick, nursing a broken heart and a crush-at-first-sight with Addie, is called in to investigate Dan's disappearance. Along the way, Val and Addie stage what may be the funniest not-quite-heist ever pulled off as they evade the heat over the missing Dan. The big payoff, of course, is that Addie and Valerie mend the mean-girls misunderstanding that drove them apart as teens and discover the shared pain and loss that bound them as kids and, once again, as adults. This beach read will win readers over with its wit and wisdom.
