Pre-Owned Rich and Pretty (Hardcover 9780062429933) by Rumaan Alam

from Narshkite

Why? Why was this book written, and why did it enjoy critical acclaim? This reads like a writing exercise. Write in the voice of affluent white women, one who takes the Park Slope breeder path, the other a "career gal" who sleeps around and has no interest in children. As an exercise Alam does a ...

from

The jacket of the book was so good. Disappointed with the stories and the characters. Borderline boring! I received a free copy of this book thru a giveaway.

from bookishtexpat

LOVED this book. Lauren and Sarah were delightfully flawed, Huck and Lulu were huge characters who didn't take over the story, Dan was ambivalently important, and Rumaan Alam created a world I readily dove in to and loved. The friendship between Lauren and Sarah was really well written and felt r...

from muddyboy

The story of a pair of best friends as they navigate through their young adulthood. Although very close they have different perspectives on marriage, kids and to some extent men. Sarah is still very close to her family but Lauren is not. They met when they were eleven years old telling each other...

from booksandscones

A book about women's friendship. A series of anecdotes, really. Sarah and Lauren meet at school when they are 11 and remain friends for over 25 years, sometimes close and sometimes drifting apart, but always knowing their friendship will never be really over, because they need each other. Not too...