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A raw and affecting sapphic coming-of-age novel about a trio of girls who begin to question the difference between friendship and desire in the blaze of one suburban summer A ""lustrous debut""* and a sundrenched and dewy snapshot of modern girl culture set in the blaze of one suburban Midwest summer ""Feldman brings an Austenian attentiveness to the foibles of suburban adolescence. . . . The pleasure of Girl's Girl is that it reveals the invisible jealousies, affections and gnawing needs lurking at the edge of so many seemingly trivial images of young womanhood.""-Sanjena Sathian, The New York Times Book Review* Fifteen-year-old Mina's whole world is her two best friends, but after an unexpected kiss, the established dynamics of their trio quickly unravel. Everything that was once shared openly, from clothes to secrets, now feels impossibly fragile. Loyalties shift and tensions simmer across the long days of this pivotal summer, where the girls have nowhere new to go and everything new to feel. Looking back, an adult Mina traces the undercurrents of longing that shaped her first experience of desire. The rituals of girlhood-gossip, selfies, sleepovers, and videogames-become threads in a delicate, volatile web of intimacy, in which everything feels achingly fleeting and permanently etched. Loving one person, Mina learns, can change the way we love everyone else-including ourselves.

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“Mothers, friends, and lovers; friends that are maybe also lovers; lovers who might not be able to be friends again—Girl’s Girl covers some of the richest ground of girlhood but also of being alive: the complexity and yearning, the fear and hunger, the thrill and delicacy of first love. Sonia Feldman has crafted a stunningly precise and tender novel, one whose characters you’ll fall in love with and whose discoveries and yearnings will thrum inside of you as they unfurl.”—Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test “An extraordinary book about friendships, first lust, and other quiet terrors . . . Full of longing and many different kinds of love.”—Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face “Poignant, funny—an intoxicating debut about girls teetering on the edge of womanhood that will hook you from the first page until the gorgeous and moving final lines”—Kristin Koval, author of Penitence

“An extraordinary book about friendships, first lust, and other quiet terrors . . . Full of longing and many different kinds of love.”—Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face “Girl’s Girl is the novel I’ve been waiting for, the one that proves the project of literature is not over. New and profound depths of the heart are waiting to be captured by the written word, and Sonia Feldman is unafraid to reach for them. She does so beautifully, generously, and on every single page.”—Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black “Mothers, friends, and lovers; friends that are maybe also lovers; lovers who might not be able to be friends again—Girl’s Girl covers some of the richest ground of girlhood but also of being alive: the complexity and yearning, the fear and hunger, the thrill and delicacy of first love. Sonia Feldman has crafted a stunningly precise and tender novel, one whose characters you’ll fall in love with and whose discoveries and yearnings will thrum inside of you as they unfurl.”—Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test “Girl’s Girl is a vibrant shot of summer, a heated and tender story about girlhood, friendship, crushes, and love. Sonia Feldman has penned an essential antidote to an absurd world and a story that feels like the promise of a friendship bracelet. With effervescence and sharp wit reminiscent of Greta Gerwig and Elena Ferrante, this debut will utterly consume you.”—Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb “Poignant, funny—an intoxicating debut about girls teetering on the edge of womanhood that will hook you from the first page until the gorgeous and moving final lines”—Kristin Koval, author of Penitence

“Mothers, friends, and lovers; friends that are maybe also lovers; lovers who might not be able to be friends again—Girl’s Girl covers some of the richest ground of girlhood but also of being alive: the complexity and yearning, the fear and hunger, the thrill and delicacy of first love. Sonia Feldman has crafted a stunningly precise and tender novel, one whose characters you’ll fall in love with and whose discoveries and yearnings will thrum inside of you as they unfurl.”—Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test “An extraordinary book about friendships, first lust, and other quiet terrors . . . Full of longing and many different kinds of love.”—Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face

“An extraordinary book about friendships, first lust, and other quiet terrors . . . Full of longing and many different kinds of love.”—Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face “Girl’s Girl is the novel I’ve been waiting for, the one that proves the project of literature is not over. New and profound depths of the heart are waiting to be captured by the written word, and Sonia Feldman is unafraid to reach for them. She does so beautifully, generously, and on every single page.”—Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black “Mothers, friends, and lovers; friends that are maybe also lovers; lovers who might not be able to be friends again—Girl’s Girl covers some of the richest ground of girlhood but also of being alive: the complexity and yearning, the fear and hunger, the thrill and delicacy of first love. Sonia Feldman has crafted a stunningly precise and tender novel, one whose characters you’ll fall in love with and whose discoveries and yearnings will thrum inside of you as they unfurl.”—Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test “Girl’s Girl is a vibrant shot of summer, a heated and tender story about girlhood, friendship, crushes, and love. Sonia Feldman has penned an essential antidote to an absurd world and a story that feels like the promise of a friendship bracelet. With effervescence and sharp wit reminiscent of Greta Gerwig and Elena Ferrante, this debut will utterly consume you.”—Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb “Poignant, funny—an intoxicating debut about girls teetering on the edge of womanhood that will hook you from the first page until the gorgeous and moving final lines”—Kristin Koval, author of Penitence “[Drops] readers deep into the psyche of a teenage girl. Mina’s conflicting emotions and thoughts are rendered in beautiful prose, which limns the complexities of girlhood friendships—and just how fraught they can be—with sensitivity and piercing insight.”—Booklist

“Mothers, friends, and lovers; friends that are maybe also lovers; lovers who might not be able to be friends again—Girl’s Girl covers some of the richest ground of girlhood but also of being alive: the complexity and yearning, the fear and hunger, the thrill and delicacy of first love. Sonia Feldman has crafted a stunningly precise and tender novel, one whose characters you’ll fall in love with and whose discoveries and yearnings will thrum inside of you as they unfurl.”—Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test “An extraordinary book about friendships, first lust, and other quiet terrors . . . Full of longing and many different kinds of love.”—Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face “Poignant, funny—an intoxicating debut about girls teetering on the edge of womanhood that will hook you from the first page until the gorgeous and moving final lines”—Kristin Koval, author of Penitence “Girl’s Girl is the novel I’ve been waiting for, the one that proves the project of literature is not over. New and profound depths of the heart are waiting to be captured by the written word, and Sonia Feldman is unafraid to reach for them. She does so beautifully, generously, and on every single page.”—Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black “Girl’s Girl is a vibrant shot of summer, a heated and tender story about girlhood, friendship, crushes and love. Sonia Feldman has penned an essential antidote to an absurd world and a story that feels like the promise of a friendship bracelet. With effervescence and sharp wit reminiscent of Greta Gerwig and Elena Ferrante, this debut will utterly consume you.”—Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb

“Mothers, friends, and lovers; friends that are maybe also lovers; lovers who might not be able to be friends again—Girl’s Girl covers some of the richest ground of girlhood but also of being alive: the complexity and yearning, the fear and hunger, the thrill and delicacy of first love. Sonia Feldman has crafted a stunningly precise and tender novel, one whose characters you’ll fall in love with and whose discoveries and yearnings will thrum inside of you as they unfurl.”—Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test “An extraordinary book about friendships, first lust, and other quiet terrors . . . Full of longing and many different kinds of love.”—Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face “Poignant, funny—an intoxicating debut about girls teetering on the edge of womanhood that will hook you from the first page until the gorgeous and moving final lines”—Kristin Koval, author of Penitence “Girl’s Girl is the novel I’ve been waiting for, the one that proves the project of literature is not over. New and profound depths of the heart are waiting to be captured by the written word, and Sonia Feldman is unafraid to reach for them. She does so beautifully, generously, and on every single page.”—Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black

Author Information

Sonia Feldman lives in Cleveland, Ohio. She won the PEN America PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Waxwing. She also runs Sonia's Poem of the Week, a popular email newsletter. Girl's Girl is her first novel.

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