EBOOK Friends Like Us

With her critically acclaimed debut novel, Still Life with Husband, Lauren Fox established herself as a wise and achingly funny chronicler of domestic life and was hailed as &';a delightful new voice in American fiction, a voice that instantly recalls the wry, knowing prose of Lorrie Moore&' (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Fox&'s new novel glitters with these pleasuresfearless wordplay, humor, and nuanceand asks us the question at the heart of every friendship: What would you give up for a friend&'s happiness?  For Willa Jacobs, seeing her best friend, Jane Weston, is like looking in a mirror on a really good day. Strangers assume they are sisters, a comparison Willa secretly enjoys. They share an apartment, clothing, and groceries, eking out rent with part-time jobs. Willa writes advertising copy, dreaming up inspirational messages for tea bags (&';The path to enlightenment is steep&' and &';Oolong! Farewell!&'), while Jane cleans houses and writes poetry about it, rhyming &';dust&' with &';lust,&' and &';clog of hair&' with &';fog of despair.&' Together Willa and Jane are a fortress of private jokes and shared opinions, with a friendship so close there&'s hardly room for anyone else. But when Ben, Willa&'s oldest friend, reappears and falls in love with Jane, Willa wonders: Can she let her two best friends find happiness with each other if it means leaving her behind?