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Book Review of The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
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This is a book about 11 women who have shared their lives over the past 40 years. If you are getting this book and expecting chick lit, be forewarned that it is not chick lit! The book is written by Jeffrey Zaslow, and one wonders at times if he truly understands female relationships. What could have been a heartfelt, poignant book reads at times as a list of anecdotes told by a stranger. My book club (A group of women I've known for almost 15 years) read this book, and we agreed that we liked the book more for how it made us consider our own friendships and their evolution more than the actual book itself.