Her friendship with Darcy Rhone goes back over 25 years when the two of them lived next door to each other in Naperville, Indiana. She’s always made good grades, fulfilled her parents expectations, lived cleanly and neatly and, above all, she’s been a good friend. Rachel White has always been the good girl. Something Borrowed illustrates the complexity of female friendship from the point of view of the least powerful girl in the relationship, imagining what would happen if she stepped out of that role and did something completely unexpected. I was particularly struck by her observation that girls’ friendships with other girls are very frequently as intense, as emotionally complex and important as those they will later have with their boyfriends and lovers. A few months ago I read Queen Bees & Wannabes, Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction book about cliques and the subtleties of teenage girls’ relationships.
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