My Ride or Die
A Novel
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3.8 • 6 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A timely and hilarious novel about two friends who decide to give up their search for a perfect man and devote their lives to each other—but their careful plan soon begins to unravel with unexpected consequences.
?“A delightful story of female friendship that will have you reaching for your phone to call your best friend.”--Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author
Fall in love.
Get married.
Turn to your female friends to be truly understood.
Friends for over a decade, Amanda and Sophie decide it’s time to flip the script. Why not spend their lives with each other and keep men on the side for fun, sex, and occasionally fixing things around the house?
Amanda is a lawyer who excels in her professional life but crumbles at the slightest sign of a common cold. Sophie is an aspiring artist who has lived all over the world and doesn’t crumble, period. Together, they’ve been through it all. But when their romantic lives implode at the same time, they decide enough is enough. Enough pretending that traditional relationships work for everyone. Enough fantasizing about an old-fashioned ideal.
They decide to form an alliance: They will rely on each other and give men the secondary role that they deserve. And much to their surprise, it actually works. They fix up a run-down brownstone and create the home they’ve always wanted. Soon, they have love and emotional support as well as a wide variety of male “crushes” on the side. But when one of their crushes becomes something more, Amanda and Sophie must reconsider the life they’ve begun to build and how far they’re willing to go to keep it.
In this brilliantly funny novel, Leslie Cohen asks: must friendship always be second to love? This is female friendship at its finest. Smart. Witty. And no holds barred.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cohen's witty buddy story (after This Love Story Will Self-Destruct) follows two longtime best friends who move in together in order to avoid limiting themselves in pursuit of marriage. Sophie is a free-spirited artist, while Amanda, a lawyer, is the grounded one. Sophie's about to get married, but bails just before the wedding ceremony, and on a drunken whim, she and Amanda make a pact to "just live life together" and swear off committed relationships with men. "Seriously, think of how much happier we'd be and how much we could accomplish with all that extra time," says Sophie. They buy an uptown Manhattan fixer-upper and their adventures ensue, beginning with a honeymoonlike trip to Cabo, Mexico. Of course, the arrangement doesn't turn out as expected: Sophie is ambitious, but struggles financially, and when a man comes between them, their pact is put in jeopardy. While Cohen occasionally leans too hard on stereotypes to characterize the two diametrically opposed friends, for the most part it's with a knowing wink (Amanda, then Sophie: "‘We're the perfect match. You're the brains, and I'm the...' ‘Floozy?' "). Enjoyable and lighthearted, this is a fun variation on the usual rom-com fare.
