She Matters: A Life in Friendships (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Sonnenberg, Susanna

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9781410455925: She Matters: A Life in Friendships (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

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ISBN 10: 1410455920 ISBN 13: 9781410455925

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2013

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She Matters From the bestselling "immensely gifted" (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times") author of "Her Last Death" comes a stunningly candid, compulsively readable, intensely provocative book about female friendships. Full description

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Review:

"Sonnenberg, who's aware of her passions and ambivalences, and doesn't hide from them, made me think about what a friendship is, anyway...She's written something that interests, exhausts, moves, perplexes, impresses and yes, matters."--Meg Wolitzer "NPR's "All Things Considered" "

"In her stunning second memoir, a collection of linked essays, Sonnenberg finds universal truths in her experiences of female friendship."--Meredith Maran "People (4-star review) "

"I was dazzled by this wise and intimate memoir about female friendship. Sonnenberg writes incredible sentences: precise, musical, surprising and insightful...Sonnenberg's engrossing stories of the highs and lows of her various friendships with women, made me feel newly grateful for all the crucial and complex women in my own life...Everyone should read this book."--Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles

"Sonnenberg is a beautiful writer...In this gallery of friendships, the portrait of each woman is so well drawn we grasp their significance and savor the intimacy."--Sherryl Connelly "New York Daily News "

"[Sonnenberg's] vivid prose is confessional and precise...Sonnenberg's intensity might be rough on friendships, but it makes for charged storytelling."--Jenny Shank "The Dallas Morning News "

"These are the stories of real women. Sonnenberg's hard-core honesty, sharp detail and lovely prose make this a collection worth passing on to a friend."--Rochelle Olson "Minneapolis Star Tribune "

"She Matters is both a remembrance of vital friendships as well as a deeply absorbing portrait of the author herself...There are beautiful moments documented here...but ultimately She Matters is a deeply affecting ode to the ones who got away."--Mythili Rao "The Daily Beast "

"She Matters lingers with you, inviting you to construct a patchwork quilt of your own life and salute the many women who helped you along the way."--Susan Chira "The New York Times Book Review "

"Sonnenberg is a gifted literary stylist with a stunning ability to write sentences that read like beautiful traps...She Matters artfully reveals the depth and gravity of love between women as they make sense of the changing and often treacherous emotional and logistical terrain of their forward-moving lives."--Emily Rapp "The Boston Globe "

"I read She Matters with such a keen sense of recognition, seeing myself (and my own mistakes and victories) repeated in so many forms through the female friendships of her own that Sonnenberg examines so eloquently...Like all of us, I want to do better. I think (hope) this book can help."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed

About the Author:

Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of Her Last Death. She lives in Montana with her family.

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