At once a meditation on the modern meaning of maturity and a timeless portrait of the underexamined bond that exists between friends, this exacting and truthful novel is a revelation. This is a story about the way we speak and live today, about the ways we disappoint and betray one another. As Bev and Amy are dragged, kicking and screaming, into real adulthood, they have to face the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart.įriendship, Emily Gould's debut novel, traces the evolution of a friendship with humor and wry sympathy. Bewilderment is Powers’s second appearance on the. Amy is still riding the tailwinds of her early success, but her habit of burning bridges is finally catching up to her. The Promise is Galgut’s third book to make the Booker shortlist, following In a Strange Room in 2010 and The Good Doctor in 2003. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would have barely passed for bohemian in her mid-twenties. The Promise Damon Galgut on Confronting South Africas Racist History With Booker-Winning The Promise Damon Galgut, South African author, attends the shortlist photocall for the 2021 Booker. Amy is an East Coast princess whose luck and charm have too long allowed her to cruise through life. Bev is a Midwestern striver still mourning a years-old romantic catastrophe. Bev Tunney and Amy Schein have been best friends for years now, at thirty, they're at a crossroads.
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