The Girls from Corona del Mar
A novel
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann couldn’t be more different; where Mia is reckless and proudly hard-hearted, Lorrie Ann is kind, serenely beautiful, and seemingly immune to the kind of teenage mistakes that Mia can’t help but make.
But within a few years, fortunes change. Suddenly, Mia is free to grow up and adventure, falling in and out of love while Lorrie Ann is weighed down by responsibilities at home. And when good, nice, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia must question how well she ever really knew her best friend in the first place.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The divergent paths of two girls raised in a Southern California beach town plot the course for Thorpe's affecting debut novel. Mia, who recounts the story of their friendship as an adult, had always cast herself as the "bad one" to Lorrie Ann's "good one": "She was beautiful... but I was sexy.... We were both smart, but Lorrie Ann was contemplative where I was wily, she earnest and I shrewd. Where she was sentimental, I became sarcastic." Secrets like lost virginity and an abortion cemented their bond, but high school graduation sent the young women in opposite directions: Mia went to Yale, and on to Istanbul to study the Sumerian goddess Inanna; Lorrie Ann had a shotgun marriage, and then became a young Army widow, caring for her disabled son, eventually turning to drug addiction to cope with it all. When Lorrie Ann turns up barefoot on Mia's doorstep in Istanbul, Mia hardly recognizes her; she can't make sense of the way her seemingly flawless friend's life has panned out. Thorpe unflinchingly examines the psychological tug-of-war between the friends, and delves in to the pro-choice debate and issues relating to medical malpractice to give the personal narrative heft. The result is a nuanced portrait of two women who are sisters in everything but name. 75,000-copy first printing.
Customer Reviews
Must read
Beautifully written, engaging through and through. A+
Terrible
I love reading all kinds of books and can appreciate different types. This book was terrible. Very depressing, hard to follow and very bad ending. Wish I could get my money back, it was that bad.
Amazing Read
Thought provoking and introspective. I couldn't put this book down once I started. A must read.