This is the story of friendship overcoming everything. Hannah does a remarkable job of illustrating the ways in which women relate to each other--as mothers, daughters, wives and friends. This book illustrates the friendship of Tully and Kate from the time they met at age 14 and the 3 decades that followed.
As adolescents, they are very different girls with very different family backgrounds who come together during a time in there lives in which each girl is struggling to discover who she is. After a traumatic night, popular Tully confides in shy, friendless Kate. When Kate keeps Tully's secret, they become inseparable... tullyandkate, friends forever.
Though they face many challenges, the girls remain friends through high school and go to college together. Tully remains focused on her dream of them becoming a successful tv journalism team, forgoing the "college experience" of sorority life, parties and dating that Kate has chosen. As they near graduation, Tully's career takes flight and Kate discovers that she'd rather be a wife and mother, a concept that Tully can't understand.
Throughout the decades that follow, the pair finds ways to maintain their friendship though they are leading very different lives. Hannah manages to capture the spirit of friendship, how our lives can become so intertwined that we can't see where one ends and the other begins. She shows us how to swallow our pride and forgive the faults of those who we love unconditionally, the ones who are so much a part of our identity that we don't recognize our lives without their presence.
Would I recommend this book? Yes, without quesiton.
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