Lifetime Friends
The Girls from Ames
Book Review by Nicole Hanratty
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow (Non-Fiction)
Cancel all of your plans for twenty-four hours after you pick up this book because once you begin reading it, you will not be able to put it down.
Any woman who has ever had a lifelong friendship that has seen dark unenviable hours, bouts of inane laughter, profound sadness, and monumental happiness will relate to this tear-jerking powerful story of the extraordinary friendship of eleven average women living normal lives that spans four decades.
At times funny, it is an honest look at dynamics that transpire in female relationships, how cliques are perceived from both the inside and out. Jeffrey Zaslow, (regardless of being a man), captures the ebb and flow of how girlfriends drift in and out of closeness without ever losing their sense of sisterhood flawlessly. As these eleven friends recount their memories and lives in detail, the author's presence is forgotten. Their old letters and journals recreate their journey into adulthood and take us back to their innocent youth. Read More...
