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Product Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “addictive, thoughtful” novel (Entertainment Weekly) that brings us through the thrilling, bewildering years of early adulthood while pulling us inside the circle of three friends, perfectly capturing the wild frustrations and soaring joys of modern life. Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case, but amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working a dead-end job, Mary is dating a nice guy with an awful mother, and Lauren is waitressing at a midtown bar and wondering why she's attracted to the sleazy bartender. Review “Remarkably relatable. . . . Close’s debut is an addictive, thoughtful, slice of life” —Entertainment Weekly "What a delight! The young women in this hugely appealing book are charming, funny, rueful, poignant. . . . One of the freshest and most appealing new voices in fiction.” —Ann Packer “[Close’s characters] grumble good-naturedly through their friends’ weddings and the births of their babies . . . with the pluck and gimlet eye of Carrie Bradshaw’s younger, smarter sisters.” —Vanity Fair “You’ll relate, but mostly you’ll laugh as Close turns her sweet-tart wit on the dating and mating shenanigans of this tight-knit group of friends.” —Redbook “Close’s witty voice . . . charts the romantic shenanigans of a bevy of New York women in their 20s, before career success or Botoxed foreheads. Dating is a phenomenon to be analyzed in improvised group therapy over cocktails.” —The New York Times “The one book that I will be recommending over and over again to all of my friends. I laughed, I cried, I nodded knowingly. . . . I can’t remember the last time I loved a book as much as this one.” —Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want “Close straddles the line between melancholy and breeziness as she chronicles the exploits of recent college grads trying to make it in New York City . . . Hints at something deeper and truer: not just the adventure of being young, but the unmooring of it, too.” —Entertainment Weekly “These Girls are smart, funny and extremely engaging. You will adore them and their poignant—and often hilarious—romantic yearnings.” —Danielle Ganek, author of The Summer We Read Gatsby “This debut will ring bells. Wedding bells. . . . An uncanny portrait emerges of a time in life marked by too many hangovers, bad dates and bridal showers—as well as an abundance of solid friendships.” —People “One wickedly observed first novel, a book that revels in contemporary city life, revealing it with a knowing flourish. . . . Girls in White Dresses is very much about New York City and about the current economic downturn. It’s about the changes that might be necessary and those that are not. It’s about friendship and heart, and it insists that relationships, if they’re solid enough, can withstand just about anything.” –The Anniston Star “[An] irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel.” —Marie Claire “Anyone who has seen The Sound of Music—that is, everyone—will likely recognize the title of Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses as a certain Oscar Hammerstein lyric. But given the tone and tenor of this debut novel, it shouldn’t surprise that the reference isn’t particularly affectionate. . . . Quite endearing.” —USA Today “An unsentimental, frank novel about female friendship—its lifelong loyalties and unconditional love.” —Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man “Modern and funny, with original, wry observations. Close’s debut novel will appeal to both fans of contemporary women’s fiction with a hip vibe and readers who enjoy old-school chick lit.” —Library Journal (starred review) “One of the most buzzed-a