(Photo: Simon and Schuster)<\/span><\/p>\nIf the title of Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s latest novel,\u00a0“The Girls Are All So Nice Here” (Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 out of four),\u00a0makes you think you’re in for a few hundred pages of sweet sorority anecdotes mixed with typical college tales…\u00a0think again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The Girls Are All So Nice Here” kept me up all night \u2014 literally. I\u00a0tore through the book in less than 24 hours, forcing my eyes to stay open\u00a0as if the remaining pages\u00a0wouldn’t be there in the morning.<\/p>\n
Flynn puts the reader inside the mind of\u00a0Ambrosia Wellington,\u00a0a public relations professional living in Astoria and working in Manhattan\u00a0who we quickly learn is a graduate of Wesleyan, a posh, private university\u00a0in Middletown, Connecticut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The book starts with an invitation written in calligraphy, as many\u00a0dramas do. But this one, for Wesleyan’s 10-year reunion, comes with a note: \u201cWe need to talk about what we did that night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dark knowledge of what she did “that night”\u00a0has gnawed Amb inside out since her freshman year.\u00a0If she attends the reunion, all of it is very likely to emerge, permanently corrupting the new life she’s built with her puppy-like\u00a0husband, Adrian, from whom she has kept many secrets.<\/p>\n
Eventually\u00a0Amb\u00a0caves and agrees to attend, unintentionally reuniting with her former best friend \u2014\u00a0the magnetic\u00a0force of nature that is Sloane Sullivan, or “Sully,” another\u00a0recipient of cryptic notes leading up to the reunion weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the story careens, alternating chapters between her freshman year of college and at her reunion, readers learn that while Amb has been guarding a toxic truth for a decade, she’s been pretending her entire life.\u00a0Pretending to fit in with the girls in high school.\u00a0Shedding her hometown identity to fit in with the girls in college \u2014 with hopes to gain Sully’s attention, which worked. Then, she changed once more in an attempt to leave the ugliness behind and just get through. No matter what shape Amb shifts\u00a0into, it’s clear she’s never been satisfied with herself or with those around her thinking always that others have more.<\/p>\n
All\u00a0the ugly truths\u00a0hidden under snark, style or plain lies\u00a0catch\u00a0up with her, manifesting in further destruction on top of what she and Sully caused all those years ago.<\/p>\n
Finishing the novel, I lay in bed, unsettled by a plot that features women\u00a0quite literally ripping each other apart\u00a0over jealousy, pettiness and revenge.\u00a0The girls are not so nice.<\/p>\n
“The Girls Are All So Nice Here” hits shelves Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\nSource: Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":""The Girls Are All So nice Here"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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