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As intensely American as a senior prom - a big, crowded, compelling novel about six women, best friends since high school, now in their forties and still "the girls." They've been close to each other forever. They've known each other's boyfriends and husbands-to-be. They've shared each other's most important moments. Is there anything they don't know about each other? And then, on an ordinary Tuesday morning, one of their marriages violently crashes. Jessie Chickery, the prettiest, the most enviable of them all, shoots (in anger? in despair? in self-defense?) the husband she's always been obsessively in love with: Pete, the most irresistible guy in town - the sexiest, the craziest, the most charming, and sometimes a little scary. A womanizer? Yes. But absolutely stalwart in time of need, important in all their lives, viscerally bound to Jessie. Her friends are thunderstruck: Ellen - well-meaning, home-loving, maddeningly pure of heart who told Jessie for her own good that Pete was Playing Around; smart, tough-talking, disappointed Tee; Frances, whom everybody counts on - the actress, the New York Success who rushes home to Kansas City to stand by; Jessie's sister, Anne; Pete's sist

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Author

Kagan, Elaine

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679433958

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.8 / 5 (25,911 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14