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A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year · A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice · Named a Best Book of the Year by Vol. 1 Brooklyn and The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Bev Tunney and Amy Schein have been best friends for years, but now, at thirty, they're at a crossroads. Bev is a hardworking Midwesterner still mourning a years-old romantic catastrophe that derailed her career. Amy is an East Coast princess, whose luck and charm have, so far, allowed her to skate through life. Bev is stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of temping, drowning in student loan debt, and (still) living with roommates. Amy is riding the tailwinds of her early success, but her habit of burning bridges is finally catching up to her. And now Bev is pregnant.
As the two are dragged, kicking and screaming, into real adulthood, they are confronted with the possibility that growing up might also mean growing apart. Friendship, Emily Gould's debut novel, is the story of their relationship-a searching examination of a best friendship that is at once profoundly recognizable and impossible to put down.
- Sales Rank: #479752 in Books
- Published on: 2015-07-07
- Released on: 2015-07-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.17" h x .76" w x 5.50" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
From Booklist
Best pals Bev and Amy are about to hit 30, and neither woman is where she wants to be. When Bev and Amy met years earlier at a publishing house, their futures were bright. But then Bev followed a guy to Wisconsin only to have him cheat on her, while Amy gained notoriety as a blogger until she pissed off the wrong person and lost her job. Now Bev is temping and living with three roommates, while Amy is halfheartedly working for the Jewish blog Yidster and dating a sexy slacker artist. They’re pretty much coasting until Bev has a one-night stand and winds up pregnant. As Bev wrestles with her choices, Amy concocts a plan to persuade Sally, a woman she and Bev house-sat for, to adopt Bev’s baby but grows envious when Bev and Sally grow close. Gould follows her essay collection, And the Heart Says . . .Whatever (2010), with a savvy first novel that, in piercing prose, zeroes in on modern ennui and the catalysts that force even the most apathetic out of their complacency. --Kristine Huntley
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“Gould has created the kind of friendship that is not shallow, silly, or a plot sideline, but private, deep, and more real than almost anything else. It's enough to make your
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29 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Clueless in Brooklyn
By Steve Purcell
I came to Emily Gould through her essay "Into the Woods" in MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction. "Into the Woods" wasn't the best essay in the book - that would be Dianna Wagman's "Application" -- but still I read it three or four times. I found it utterly compelling for the author's utter cluelessness. I'm decades older than Ms. Gould's demographic and I'm sure her platform, such as it is, doesn't account for readers like me. It seems Ms. Gould has become a social lightning rod, albeit in a small sphere, that being Brooklyn hipsters/MFA culture. But lately that small sphere has an outsize cultural influence, often determining what novels get published by New York's major houses. That said, I looked forward to reading Friendship when finally it was published. It's about what I expected. And please note that one of my three stars goes to the Brooklyn-Manhattan setting. Take these characters out of that milieu and it's like sticking a pin in a balloon. If I had to use one word to describe Friendship it would be wishy-washy. The two main characters, Bev and Amy, are wishy-washy in extremis. And the third-person narrative is equally wishy-washy. Every emotion in this novel is always sorta or like or maybe, never full-on whatever. True to Ms. Gould's professed feminist-socialist education, her characters don't dare be judgmental, except, of course, when it comes to so-called privileged white males (which is why she gets so much play on Salon.com and Huffington Post). Even the title is wishy-washy. Advertising the novel as an exploration of friendship - specifically, Bev and Amy, two would-be writers in Brooklyn - is a thinly veiled cover for a thin story. Not much happens in Friendship and the crises, such as Bev's pregnancy resulting from a drunken one-nighter with a loathsome co-worker, seem contrived to give the novel a semblance of plot. Ms. Gould's writing is hardly awesome. More often than not her prose is clunky. There's an overabundance of adjectives and adverbs. The author repeatedly strings three or four pedestrian adjectives together when just the right one would nail it. How could an editor let an abomination like "infinite eternity" get by her without red-pencilling it? There's also an overabundance of adolescent weenie words like, um, "like" and "really" and "totally." Everyone in the novel talks like that, and bad as that is it's worse in the third-person narrative. At times, the novel itself feels adolescent, YA-ish, if you will. Bev and Amy constantly addressing each other as "dude" doesn't help. They read like two particularly immature YA characters out of their depth in the grown-up world. The scene where Bev and Amy declare themselves best friends seems more suited to girls in eighth grade than women pushing thirty. Ms. Gould does have an eye for telling detail. But her epiphanies seem more like defensive responses to her critics than insights born of painful introspection. The author will have to write a far better novel than Friendship if she's ever going to transcend being Emily Gould. Yet she's made her mark. There's no denying her influence. A few years ago, I participated in a roundtable discussion with six literary agents from Brooklyn and Manhattan, five young women and one young man, and each was a variation of Emily Gould. How did these privileged kids with their MFA's and politically correct feminist-socialist educations get to be the gatekeepers of American fiction? Still, despite myself, I enjoyed reading Friendship (half the fun, of course, was editing and critiquing as I read). If anyone out there wants to read a terrific 5-star novel about authentic Brooklynites I'd suggest Rizzo's Daughter, by Lou Manfredo. There isn't a Pulitzer winner in the past ten years that can touch Mr. Manfredo for everything that great novelists do.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Middling chick-lit from a capable writer
By Schmadrian
Ms Gould has more chops than are suggested by this novel. I don't say this from having read her stuff elsewhere. It's just a hunch. I think that this tale is hampered by the usual characteristics of the genre: some snappy bits, some mild insights, lots of observational sections...but pretty much lacking story, or for that matter, depth. When I say that about story, what I'm referring to is the fact that the novel is a long 'situation' with various characters, various facets.
The book did not move me. The story was not compelling. I appreciated the facility with which it was written...but it's not something I'd recommend to anyone.
Here's to Ms Gould digging deeper to mine a more 'literary' vein of storytelling.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Didn't Meet It's Potential
By Katie Guilkey
I was very unimpressed with this book. I felt as though it had no plot and what little plot it did have was not even wrapped up at the end. I kept reading, thinking something would happen that would hold my interest, but nothing did.
That being said, the writing was fine and I enjoyed how she presented the characters. I just felt as though the book could have been so much better.
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