It’s Like Being in Love, Discovering Your Best Friend

If you recognize the quotation I stole for the title of this post, you’ve probably read Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. That much-hyped 2012 YA novel is the WWII story of two young British women, one a spy and one a pilot, whose mission in Nazi-occupied France goes devastatingly wrong. One of the most beautiful parts of the novel is the fast friendship between Maddie, the pilot from a working class Jewish family, and Julie, the spy from an aristocratic Scottish family. I don’t mean to den...