Asking for a Friend

✍ Scribed by Kerry Clare

• Book ID: 111841502
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 857 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385675659

✦ Synopsis

For readers of J. Courtney Sullivan and Emma Straub, and for fans of Firefly Lane , comes a poignant and astute novel about life, love, and the ever-evolving nature of female friendship by the author of Waiting for a Star to Fall.
The bottom of Jess's world is falling out. Cocooned in her dorm in the winter of 1998, she's reeling, and wants to be left alone. But a chance encounter with the older, otherworldly, elusive Clara has Jess awestruck. Clara, newly returned from a two-year trek drifting around the world, is taking a stab at normalcy for once, and the place she starts is university, where she struggles to fit in. Upon meeting Jess, though, Clara feels an instant connection, and everything seems brighter. Soon, the two are inseparable, undeniable necessities in each other's lives. But when tragedy strikes, they are unceremoniously torn apart, sent tumbling down different paths. And with each passing day, their unbreakable bond is...