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Book SynopsisA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
A Must-Read at People, Entertainment Weekly, Nylon, and LitHub
Stylish, reckless . . . Glittering. Molly Young, The New York Times
A power ballad to female friendship, Girls They Write Songs About is a thrumming, searching novel about the bonds that shape us more than any love affair.
We moved to New York to want undisturbed and unchecked. And what did we want?
New York, 1997. As the city's gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two aspiring writers meet at a music magazine. Rosebrash and self-possessedis a staff writer. Charlottehesitant, bookishis an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they're inseparable, falling into the kind of friendship that makes every
