Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly
voiced debut that captures what it's like to be a teenage girl--"full of
brilliantly-rendered awkwardness and the hilarious minor horrors of a
privileged adolescence, The Brittanys shimmers with the everyday
incandescence of youth" (Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black
Light).
They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but
at least everyone knows their name(s). The Brittanys.
Brittany Rosenberg: drives her golf cart around her subdivision to meet
boys.
Brittany Gottlieb: insists you can't lose your virginity if you haven't
gotten your period. (She heard it somewhere!)
Brittany Tomassi: is from New York.
Brittany Jensen: once threw her tampon into a stranger's swimming pool.
A brash, bold, unapologetic tomboy. And the greatest person in the whole
wide world.
At least as far as the fifth Brittany--our narrator--is concerned. Even
within their friend group, she and Jensen are a duo: with their matching
JanSport backpacks, Tiffany chokers, and Victoria's Secret push-up bras,
they are unstoppable. And now that they're finally growing up, they're
going to do everything: dye their hair, attend no-parent parties, try
pot . . . maybe even lose their virginities. 2004 is totally going to be
their year!
Except Jensen's interests may be diverging from her friends'. And within
our narrator's own family--in the lives of her exhausted mother and
beloved, genius older brother--life-changing events may be taking shape.
Events that only years later, looking back, she has the perspective to
see.
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
