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Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but can't quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend's life. Then a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, and then fall further -- and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, brave, fair Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is, and what that question means about them both.
About the Author
Rufi Thorpe grew up in California, the only child of a single mother. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, then moved to New York at the age of 16 to attend Eugene Lang College at the New School, where she majored in Literature and Creative Writing. After receiving her MFA from The University of Virginia, she returned to California, where she met her husband and began teaching. Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, was selected for the Dylan Thomas Prize as well as the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.
