Bennington Girls Are Easy: A Novel

Bennington Girls Are Easy: A Novel

Chosen as one of "Summer's Best Books" byÂ PEOPLE MAGAZINE: "Suprisingly insightful and seriously fun."

One of O MAGAZINE's "Season's Best"

A COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINEÂ "July Reads" PickÂ
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Named one of REFINERY 29's â€œ21 New Authors to Watchâ€ in 2015

Charlotte Silver dazzles with a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that follows two recent Bennington grads who are determined to make it in the Big Apple.
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Â Â Â Â Â Bennington College, founded in 1932 as a suitable refuge for the wayward daughters of good families, maintains its saucy reputation for attracting free spirits. There, acres outnumber students, the faculty is composed of fading hippie and clothing is largely optional. Or, as J. D. Salinger put it inÂ Franny and Zooey: a Bennington-type "looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress."
Â Â Â Â Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst met in high school but cement what they ardently believe will be everlasting friendship on Bennington's idyllic Vermont campus. Graduation sees Sylvie moving to New York City, where, later on their twenties, Cassandra joins her. These early, delirious years are spent decorating their Fort Greene apartment with flea market gems, dating "artists", and trying to figure out what they're doing with their lives.
Â Â Â Â The girls are acutely and caustically observant of the unique rhythms of the city but tone deaf to their own imperfections, which eventually drives a wedge between them. Equal parts heartfelt and hilarious,Â Bennington Girls Are EasyÂ is a novel about female friendshipsâ€”how with one word from a confidante can lift you up or tear you downâ€”and how difficult it is to balance someone else's devastatingly funny lapses in judgment with your own professional and personal missteps.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-07-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Anchor
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-07-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Bennington Girls Are Easy: A Novel

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