The Girls Author:Elaine Kagan 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'... more »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.« less
When Jessie Chickery shoots and kills her husband, Pete, her childhood friends return to their hometown and each has a different set of reminiscences about the dead man.