Friends for life

by Meg Wolitzer

1994 · 213 pages

jewish women
female friendship
friendship

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About this book

Meredith, Lisa, and Ann like to tell people that they've known one another forever - and they have: their shared history began with a fifth-grade project on Incan civilization and a pledge of undying friendship.

Now, on the cusp of thirty, this unlikely trio still meets once a month at a Chinese restaurant for hot and sour soup and emotional debriefings. Meredith works in television and has fallen in love with the married host of a current affairs show. Ann toils thanklessly as an editorial assistant in a publishing house. Lisa is surviving a medical residency and looking forward to what promises to be a blissful marriage with a fellow doctor.

But none of these women can begin to imagine the ways in which life, husbands, and lovers can complicate what was once such a simple friendship. Crisp, intelligent, and hilarious, Friends for Life is a rousing celebration of female lives and the unpredictable vagaries of female friendship.

Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

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We live in a world where you could go for the rest of your life never reading a book — after school. And that to me is a sad fate ... because books hold so much.
... I shouldn't write a novel to keep up with every event.
... when I was a child, I used to tell myself ... serial novels in my head. I had a novel that I told myself, on the way to school, about the two heirs to the Kraft cheese fortune. ... I think it's because ... my mother, busy writing, gave us a lot of Kraft macaroni and cheese.