<![CDATA[History Lesson for Girls]]>

false <![CDATA[History Lesson for Girls]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170344280m/46966.jpg 46966 2 A beautiful and resonant novel about a friendship that shaped a life during a decade of instability Everyone remembers age thirteen. For Alison Glass, it was 1975, the year she moved to Weston, Connecticut, with her bohemian parents and her horse, Jazz. Life was about trying to navigate the hypocrisies of an unfamiliar affluent town and figuring out how she might blend in at school despite her status as the new girl with a back brace for scoliosis. Kate Hamilton, the popular daughter of an egomaniacal New Age guruthe sham shamanand his substance-loving wife, was an unlikely friend, the strong girl Alison regarded as her saving grace. Bonding over their love of horses, they rode away the afternoons, creating a private world for themselves as a way to survive the excesses of their surroundings and the adults who cast them adrift in such a tumultuous time. With the clarity of hindsight, Alison looks back on how the tumult inevitably broke through. Set against the backdrop of the often hilariously tacky and disturbingly reckless 1970s, Aurelie Sheehan's luminous History Lesson for Girls is at once an emotional inquest and an elegy for a friendship that meant everything. As Alison traces the giddy highs and crushing lows that made her the person she was at thirteen, a picture emerges of a friendship that simply couldn't survive the weight of the shadows under which it was forged. Combining the poignancy and elegance of The Virgin Suicides with the sharp observational eye of The Ice Storm, History Lesson for Girls is an enchanting tribute to the lingering influence of friendship and significance of personal history. 46036 2006 History Lesson for Girls total:164|5:10|4:52|3:69|2:25|1:8| 164 523 264 44 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 19:46:07 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 21:00:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 17:16:56 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 19:50:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 08:25:29 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 14:47:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 09 11:55:32 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 19 12:52:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 22 16:58:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:59:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:02:19 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:05:46 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 08 13:30:21 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 31 19:38:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 10:16:40 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 09:12:48 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 22 08:31:58 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 02 12:51:01 -0800 2009
1) I liked the realistic (and searing) way adolescent meanness was depicted; I think this is the first book in a LONG time that has made me remember what it was like to be in middle school and how mean people could be. (Including, of course *cringe* me.)
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Book club went really well with this book - it was far more tragic than I had anticipated (the book, not the club), but was a cool look at how a friendship changes.

It was super cool because they were growing up in Connecticut (l...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 06 08:20:49 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 12:50:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 23 04:14:50 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 04:16:34 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 17 00:13:01 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 00:14:26 -0800 2009 here.]]> 1 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 09 17:17:25 -0800 2008 Sun May 03 14:23:18 -0700 2009
Allison is a young girl who has debilitating scoliosis that requires her to wear an ugly brace. Her hippie parents move her to a ritzy town in Connecticut where she is constantly tormented b...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 18:15:07 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 18:20:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 06:09:35 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 12:14:15 -0800 2007
I picked this book up b/c the main character has scoliosis and wears a brace for part of the book - something I thought I could relate to since I have scoliosis and wore a brace in high school as well. And the story was ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 12:50:40 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 12:51:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 20:48:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 11:51:19 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Mar 01 12:14:47 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 01 12:17:55 -0800 2007
The story follows a young girl (in a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 09:16:33 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 09:19:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=46966