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Friends like us : a novel / Lauren Fox.

by Fox, Lauren.

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Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.

Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.

269 p. ; 22 cm.

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?

Psychological fiction.

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