Girls They Write Songs about Bauer Carlene

"[A] glittering . . . And what did we want?New York, 1997. love story about two friends, but [also] something thornier." --Molly Young, The New York TimesA 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.

Rose--brash and self-possessed--is a staff writer. As the city's gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two aspiring writers meet at a music magazine. Charlotte--hesitant, bookish--is 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 day an adventure, and makes you believe that you will, of