Rufi Thorpe. (2014). The Girls from Corona del Mar: A novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Rufi Thorpe. 2014. The Girls From Corona Del Mar: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Rufi Thorpe, The Girls From Corona Del Mar: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2014.

Rufi Thorpe. The Girls From Corona Del Mar: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2014.

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“Why did Lorrie Ann look graceful in beat-up Keds and shorts a bit too small for her? Why was it charming when she snorted from laughing too hard? Yes, we were jealous of her, and yet we did not hate her. She was never so much as teased by us, we roaming and bratty girls of Corona del Mar, thieves of corn nuts and orange soda, abusers of lip gloss and foul language.”
 
An astonishing debut about friendships made in youth, The Girls from Corona del Mar is a fiercely beautiful novel about how these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or endure.
Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but can’t quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend’s life. Then a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, and then fall further—and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, brave, fair Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is, and what that question means about them both.
A staggeringly honest, deeply felt novel of family, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth of the perfect friendship, The Girls from Corona del Mar asks just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children, and who we are without our friends. 

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   • source: Steph Cha, La Times
   • content: "Thorpe's story, though beautifully embellished with international settings and Sumerian legend, is a simple one about the dramas of long-term friendship, its importance and poignancy, its difficulties and disappointments . . . None of us like to remember that our friends change in ways we can't control; worse, that we may not know them that well to begin with . . . The Girls From Corona del Mar is a slim book that leaves a deep impression. Mia and Lorrie Ann are vivid and fully formed, and their stories provoke strong emotions that linger like lived memory. Thorpe is a gifted writer who depicts friendship with affection and brutality, rendering all its love and heartbreak in painstaking strokes."
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   • source: Andrew Blom, Boston Herald
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     "Just when you believe the ubiquitous 'literature is dead' declarations are true, there comes a novel like The Girls from Corona del Mar...It's hard to believe that The Girls from Corona del Mar is Rufi Thorpe's first novel -- she writes like someone who has been through the wringer, like writers of the past who wrote because they needed to, because they had a problem with the way life was and had to tell someone. The Girls from Corona del Mar belongs in a different era, like something that could have been written during the days of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. It's about two people, who despite the promises that life once held for them, continue on, for better and for worse, to try and capture a dream."
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   • source: Lisa Shea, Elle
   • content: "A knockout of a debut novel. . . Pugnacious, risk-taking Mia, a child of divorce, grows up envious of Lorrie Ann, with her intact family and her elegant, upturned nose. Then in their junior year of high school, everything changes when a family tragedy strikes, marking "the first tap-tap on Lorrie Ann's window­pane by those bad luck vultures" . . . Thorpe is too firmly in control to let an abundance of plot points crowd out her narrative's deeper meanings. Her worldly, rambunctious, feminist, morally interrogative prose style galvanizes ­every episode with smart, almost cosmic insights, tough talk, elegiac moments of love, dumb wonder, and, of course, further tragic events. . . We can't help but root for these memorable heroines, and Thorpe's beautiful twist of an ending is admirably earned."
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   • source: Leah Greenblat, Entertainment Weekly
   • content: "Lorrie Ann and Mia are best friends defined by their differences: Lorrie Ann is beautiful, serene, a rule follower; Mia is fierce, with a recklessness that passes for bravado. Both end up pregnant before graduation, but it's sweet Lorrie Ann whose life is haunted by "the vultures of bad luck." Girls' raw, lyrical tone resonates--a gratifyingly honest dispatch from the battlelines of young womanhood."
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   • source: Megan Angelo, Glamour
   • content: "I love childhood BFF novels (hello, Judy Blume!). This one's adult and enchanting."
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   • source: Dame
   • content: "There is no bond as meaningful to a woman as that with her best friend, especially the one she grew up with, and Rufi Thorpe's debut novel beautifully explores that relationship--the tie that binds even as women grow up and apart. . . Lorrie Ann seems perfect, the beautiful, charming girl who'll take the world by storm, but as she and her best friend Mia get older, they endure loss, illness, distance, parenthood, and life paths neither ever expected. But their friendship, battered and confused as it may become, endures, captured with lyrical authenticity by Thorpe."
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   • source: S. Kirk Walsh, Virginia Quarterly Review
   • content: "Thorpe is a skilled writer . . . The author's prose embodies a grace and subtle flourish . . . Thorpe provides a thoughtful examination of the enduring and complicated dance of friendship between two women. She offers up complex characters that live life fully--​and at times, self-​destructively--​and how the two play off one another. Taken altogether, The Girls from Corona del Mar explores how Mia remembers and forgets."
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   • source: BookPage
   • content: "Elegant yet intense . . . The Girls from Corona del Mar spans multiple births, deaths, continents, and love affairs as Mia does the difficult work of looking back on her friendship with L
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   • content: There's an ordinariness to this unfolding story about two best friends who are growing up and growing apart. Rebecca Lowman portrays both characters with equal skill. Mia thinks of her best friend, Lorrie Ann, as more than an ordinary girl: In Mia's eyes, Lorrie Ann is beautiful and pure. Lowman's steady pace emphasizes Mia's strong identity, but moments of obvious jealousy come through. When Lorrie Ann's life takes a turn for the worse, Lowman deftly dramatizes Mia's attempts to mask her shock and dismay at her friend's life choices. Lowman provides a beautiful narration as two young women come of age. T.E.C. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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      April 14, 2014
      The divergent paths of two girls raised in a Southern California beach town plot the course for Thorpe’s affecting debut novel. Mia, who recounts the story of their friendship as an adult, had always cast herself as the “bad one” to Lorrie Ann’s “good one”: “She was beautiful... but I was sexy.... We were both smart, but Lorrie Ann was contemplative where I was wily, she earnest and I shrewd. Where she was sentimental, I became sarcastic.” Secrets like lost virginity and an abortion cemented their bond, but high school graduation sent the young women in opposite directions: Mia went to Yale, and on to Istanbul to study the Sumerian goddess Inanna; Lorrie Ann had a shotgun marriage, and then became a young Army widow, caring for her disabled son, eventually turning to drug addiction to cope with it all. When Lorrie Ann turns up barefoot on Mia’s doorstep in Istanbul, Mia hardly recognizes her; she can’t make sense of the way her seemingly flawless friend’s life has panned out. Thorpe unflinchingly examines the psychological tug-of-war between the friends, and delves in to the pro-choice debate and issues relating to medical malpractice to give the personal narrative heft. The result is a nuanced portrait of two women who are sisters in everything but name. 75,000-copy first printing.

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