Overview
āFiercely felt and finely etched.āāLeslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any romance. When her beloved cousin was murdered just as both girls were entering adulthood, Dancygerās devotion to the women in her life took on a new urgencyāa desire to hold her friends close while she still could. In First Love, this urgency runs through a striking exploration of the bonds between women, from the intensity of adolescent best friendship and fluid sexuality to mothering and chosen family.
Each essay in this incisive collection is grounded in a close female friendship in Dancygerās life, reaching outward to dissect cultural assumptions about identity and desire, and the many ways women create space for each other in a world that wants us small. Seamlessly weaving personal experience with literature and pop cultureāranging from fairy tales to true crime, from AnaĆÆs Nin and Sylvia Plath to Heavenly Creatures and the āsad girlsā of TumblrāDancygerās essays form a kaleidoscopic story of a life told through friendships, and an expansive interrogation of what it means to love each other.
Though friendship will never be enough to keep us safe from the dangers of the world, Dancyger reminds us that love is always worth the risk, and that when tragedy strikes, itās our friends who will help us survive. In First Love, these essential bonds get their due.
This book title, First Love (Essays on Friendship), ISBN: 9780593447574, by Lilly Dancyger, published by Random House Publishing Group (May 7, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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