Best Friends

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This was such a great friends to lovers book where two adults finally admit and commit to the love they found as teenagers. Since I am a dog lover and dog is humankind’s best animal friend, I naturally had to include some poems on the topic. Note: some are sad poems about lost friends. A Dog Has Died By Pablo Neruda Best of Friends starts out promisingly as an intimate Ferrante-esque story of the friendship of two 14-year-old girls, bookish Zahra and extroverted Maryam who attend a posh private school in 1988 Karachi, when Zia's dictatorship gave way to Benazir Bhutto's democratically-elected government. rounded down. This was a near-complete misfire from a genuinely talented novelist, whose novels I have generally enjoyed, especially her last, Home Fire. Moment you move from exciting to terrifying. KS has spoken to lots of women. In the book “girl fear”. Vulnerability. Don’t make wrong decision.I didn’t care for the unmarked dialogue. It grew on me along the way but the book is dialogue-heavy so this was a strange choice. It was hard to figure out which was speaking sometimes. The story then moves to London in the present day with the girls now grown up and living with the ghosts of their shared past and a night that changed everything. My biggest issue with this part of the story was that I didn't feel like I got to know the girls well enough in the first part to really connect with them and so the whole story just fell flat for me. Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi, where she grew up. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. While at the University of Massachusetts she wrote In The City By The Sea, published by Granta Books UK in 1998. This first novel was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Award in the UK, and Shamsie received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. Her 2000 novel Salt and Saffron led to Shamsie’s selection as one of Orange’s “21 Writers of the 21st Century.” With her third novel, Kartography, Shamsie was again shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys award in the UK. Both Kartography and her next novel, Broken Verses, won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan. Burnt Shadows, Shamsie’s fifth novel, has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her books have been translated into a number of languages. Her latest novel has some of the same themes, Anglo-Pakistani families and even a (different) fictional Conservative Home Secretary – but does not have the classical underpinning and I think suffers as a consequence and I have to say I found this a disappointing read.

So many thanks to NetGalley and Thomas&Mercer for sharing this gripping ARC in exchange my honest review and true feelings. This is a heartbreaking story of friendship and motherhood and I would be lying if I said that it didn't bring me to tears. As a mother of a teenage boy, well, this just really hit close to home. Shamsie is the daughter of literary critic and writer Muneeza Shamsie, the niece of celebrated Indian novelist Attia Hosain, and the granddaughter of the memoirist Begum Jahanara Habibullah. A reviewer and columnist, primarily for the Guardian, Shamsie has been a judge for several literary awards including The Orange Award for New Writing and The Guardian First Book Award. She also sits on the advisory board of the Index on Censorship.

Friends to the World

The genre is Women's Fiction, and I pondered the need for this book. This was not a healthy relationship and there is no advice. Leaving me at -- this book was a waste of my precious reading time. I don't see the purpose. There was nothing to like or enjoy. Many thanks to NetGalley, Minotaur/SMP, and Jessica Fellowes for an ARC of this book! Now available as of 9.13!** The line between love and hate really can be thin sometimes. Not usually, but it is in this case. A strange codependence even when out of each other’s lives. It was very depressing but hauntingly interesting.