Girl's Girl

“[A] lustrous debut … Feldman brings an Austenian attentiveness to the foibles of suburban adolescence… . This is not a story about the great rupture of coming out, but a more nuanced look at how young lovers must invent their own kinds of courtship, in ways both universal and specifically queer.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Modern yet nostalgic, this is a story that will have you reminiscing and thinking critically about girlhood, gossip, group dynamics and intimacy.”—KQED

“Blurring the lines between friendship and romance, real life and its digital representations (selfies, the Sims), this intimate portrait of contemporary American girlhood traces the shifting relationships between three 15-year-olds over one sweltering Ohio summer.”—The New York Times

“Feldman bottles the anxieties and newness of teenage years in Girl’s Girl. Set in one blistering Midwestern small town summer, everything changes in Mina’s friend group when her best friend unexpectedly kisses her at a sleepover. This is a sweet, nostalgic coming-of-age story.”—USA Today

“Girl’s Girl interrogates the minutiae of girlhood and adolescence with startling reverence, whether that means analyzing the motives behind social-media behavior or portraying young people coming to terms with who they truly are.”—Harper’s Bazaar

“This debut novel is a small, precise, gorgeous book about being fifteen and best friends with two girls—one of whom you are slowly realizing you might be in love with. Set over one summer in suburban Ohio, it’s about the rituals of girlhood (the borrowed clothes, the selfies, the Sims), and how one unexpected kiss can quietly unravel everything. Feldman writes teenage girlhood so accurately, it’s weirdly comforting.”—Scary Mommy

“This debut novel from Cleveland author Sonia Feldman is an ode to an Ohio summer and a coming-of-age story brimming with nostalgia. Following three teenage best friends as they navigate a pivotal summer and the firsts of adolescence, it’s a perfect summer read.”—Bostondotcom

“Summer leaps off every page in Feldman’s carefully crafted coming-of-age novel. So many teenage novels capture the moments, but Feldman captures the essence of when the world seems limitless, and your mistakes are equally catastrophic as they are meaningless. Feldman simply gets it.”—Debutiful

“Set in one summer in the suburban Midwest, this coming-of-age debut novel follows 15-year-old Mina, whose life revolves around her two best friends, a dynamic swiftly and thoroughly rocked by an unexpected queer kiss. Friendship and desire become all tangled up in this exploration of girlhood.”—Autostraddle

“New and profound depths of the heart are waiting to be captured by the written word, and Sonia Feldman is unafraid to reach for them. She does so beautifully, generously, and on every single page.”—Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black

“Girl’s Girl covers some of the richest ground of girlhood but also of being alive: the complexity and yearning, the fear and hunger, the thrill and delicacy of first love.”—Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test

“Girl’s Girl is a vibrant shot of summer, a heated and tender story about girlhood, friendship, crushes, and love.”—Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb

“Poignant, funny—an intoxicating debut about girls teetering on the edge of womanhood that will hook you from the first page until the gorgeous and moving final lines”—Kristin Koval, author of Penitence

“Feldman captures a hot, sticky, teenage summer in the suburbs with discerning, literary prose and picture-perfect intensity.”—Electric Literature

“[Drops] readers deep into the psyche of a teenage girl. Mina’s conflicting emotions and thoughts are rendered in beautiful prose, which limns the complexities of girlhood friendships—and just how fraught they can be—with sensitivity and piercing insight.”—Booklist

Sonia Feldman lives in Cleveland, Ohio. She won the PEN America PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Waxwing. She also runs Sonia’s Poem of the Week, a popular email newsletter. Girl’s Girl is her first novel.

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