
Rich and Pretty
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Julie McKay
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By:
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Rumaan Alam
This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives.
As close as sisters for 20 years, Sarah and Lauren have been together through high school and college, first jobs and first loves, the uncertainties of their 20s and the realities of their 30s.
Sarah, the only child of a prominent intellectual and a socialite, works at a charity and is methodically planning her wedding. Lauren - beautiful, independent, and unpredictable - is single and working in publishing, deflecting her parents' worries and questions about her life and future by trying not to think about them herself. Each woman envies - and is horrified by - particular aspects of the other's life, topics of conversation they avoid with masterful linguistic pirouettes.
Once, Sarah and Lauren were inseparable; for a long a time now, they've been apart. Can two women who rarely see one another, selectively share secrets, and lead different lives still call themselves best friends? Is it their abiding connection or just force of habit that keeps them together?
With impeccable style, biting humor, and a keen sense of detail, Rumaan Alam deftly explores how the attachments we form in childhood shift as we adapt to our adult lives - and how the bonds of friendship endure, even when our paths diverge.
©2016 Rumaan Alam (P)2016 HarperCollins PublishersListeners also enjoyed...




















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Narration aside, I got this book after reading "Leave The World Behind" by the same author. That book also has mixed reviews, but I gave it 5 stars so I was willing to chance it here. This book really suffered from the lack of overall story structure and foundation that "Leave the World..." has. Both books meander and focus on character development over plot, but this one is too untethered. This author failed here because they didn't reign themselves in at all, the timeline is endless from youth to adulthood and it seems to go on, and on, (and on?) at times. I have a high tolerance for low structure books, but this one didn't work for me.
I just have to ask the person who left the review saying that they "hoped to relate" to the characters, but gave it an overall bad rating because they didn't: Which did you think you'd relate to more? Rich, or pretty?
I did it! (I did it?)
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Empty lives
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Well-written, but no story
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No story
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Painfully slow and boring.
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Dissapointing
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I can’t with this book
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The author does a great job at illustrating how life can change even the best of friendships. Some times you tend to wonder if they really are friends with the way that the plot works through the story.
Good, but......
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The story where nothing ever happens.
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