We've all had them. Friends we are awestruck by, obsessed by, who treat us as if we are equals - but yet are constantly pulling the rug out from under us, making us feel like we are being ridiculous.
Wednesday, the first week of college classes, in an art class with the professor she chose this college to learn from, a girl with careless style and wild hair bursts into the classroom late, and Anna is awestruck. Willow is cool, rich, and carelessly cruel. Anna is driven, ambitious, and vulnerable to Willow's toxicity, drawn in like a moth to a flame. Anna and Willow become inseparable, the foundation of a group of friends who will weather many highs and lows together, sometimes at the expense of one another.
Five years later, Anna is finally ready to do something about it. They're still together, living in an apartment in NYC, and Anna plans a prank to scare Willow, maybe shake her resolve, and give Anna back some of her own. But on the morning of the prank, September 11, 2001, the world went wrong, Willow went missing, and Anna is again left wondering what is happening.
I read this book in big gulps, immersed in the late 90s vibes, the fashion, the art, and the ongoing discussion of women as muses and the artists who used them. I recognized the emotions, the personalities, and the electric buzz that ran through the well-written prose. It is one of my favorite reads so far this year.
Expected publication May 27, 2025.
Thanks to Netgalley, the publishers, and the author for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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