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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashares
Four teenage girls who have been friends since before birth (their mothers shared a pregnancy class) are about to spend their first summer completely separated, each heading off to private adventures that have them excited and a little nervous about voyaging on their own. A couple are more nervous that the separation will prove to be a splintering, fracturing the friendship forever. While shopping in a second-hand store, Carmen comes across a pair of old jeans that seem to magically fit them all in spite of their different heights and builds, and it is from this that The Sisterhood is born. Along with the jeans goes a set of rules that essentially ensures the group remain in communication, tight knit, and ready to share their stories when reunited again at the start of fall. The lessons learned and heartbreaks and triumphs to come will be burdens carried by all eventually, but until their reunion, one pair of jeans will serve as witness to everything.
This is a story about that period in life when it feels like everything is changing: your friends, yourself, your perspective and world view; the world seems tiny and huge and beautiful and mean all at once and the prospect of what is coming around the corner is so terrifying and exhilarating, one isn't sure if it's better to run toward it or away from it. It's about the relationships that are broken through those times, and the ones that endure, and how its not always easy to tell which are which in the moment. It's a pretty easy book in terms of pace and readability, and produces some nostalgia in me. I enjoyed the summer break with these young ladies and I'm looking forward to seeing how the transitions play out in the other books in the series.
This is a story about that period in life when it feels like everything is changing: your friends, yourself, your perspective and world view; the world seems tiny and huge and beautiful and mean all at once and the prospect of what is coming around the corner is so terrifying and exhilarating, one isn't sure if it's better to run toward it or away from it. It's about the relationships that are broken through those times, and the ones that endure, and how its not always easy to tell which are which in the moment. It's a pretty easy book in terms of pace and readability, and produces some nostalgia in me. I enjoyed the summer break with these young ladies and I'm looking forward to seeing how the transitions play out in the other books in the series.