1.08.2014

WoW [58]

Waiting on Wednesday [WoW] is a weekly event hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

 
The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe
Expected Publication: July 8, 2014
Publisher: Knopf

Synopsis...
A fiercely beautiful debut blazing with emotion: a major first novel about friendships made in youth and how these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or sustain.
Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but can't quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend's life. Until a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, and then fall apart further-and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, kind, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is and what that question means about them both. A staggeringly arresting, honest novel of love, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth of the perfect friendship that moves us to ask ourselves just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children, and who we are without our friends.

Why I Can’t Wait….
This is a book I HAVE to read. Seriously doesn’t the description alone make you want to also? This sounds like a richly written story, something that definitely speaks to me. Now I just have to hope the reading gods can get a copy to me…soon.
What are you waiting on? Please link me up to yours. I’d love to see your picks! 

5 comments:

  1. Oh the tests of fate! I love those! Reminds me so much of This Much is True by Katherine Owen!

    Great choice!


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  2. It does sound quite good. The cover is very good too.

    ENJOY!!

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  3. This book sounds interesting! THanks for sharing.

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  4. Oh, great pick! Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for sharing. Here's MY WOW POST

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