Sonia Feldman

From a dazzling new talent, a sensual and spellbinding novel about one summer that shatters the balance between three best friends, forcing them to confront the line between friendship and desire

Fifteen-year-old Mina’s whole world is her two best friends, but after an unexpected kiss, the established dynamics of their trio quickly unravel. Everything that was once shared openly, from clothes to secrets, now feels impossibly fragile. Loyalties shift and tensions simmer across the long days of this pivotal summer, where the girls have nowhere new to go and everything new to feel.

Looking back, an adult Mina traces the undercurrents of longing that shaped her first experience of desire. The rituals of girlhood—gossip, selfies, sleepovers, and videogames—become threads in a delicate, volatile web of intimacy, in which everything feels achingly fleeting and permanently etched. Loving one person, Mina learns, can change the way we love everyone else—including ourselves. 

Bold, vulnerable, and sharply observant, Girl’s Girl is a sundrenched and dewy snapshot of modern girl culture set in the blaze of one suburban Midwest summer.

Girl’s Girl

Emma Hak-Kovacs

"We should brag to Margaret," I said. "She may have gone down on a live human boy, but we collectively impregnated a tiny digital woman.

How do you turn a person into  your girlfriend when you're currently mad at them and ultimately unclear on their feelings for you? I didn't have anyone to ask, so I spent the drive to the bakery reading the internet, which had plenty of advice on the general topic of best friends to lovers but could not instruct me specifically on how to exist in relation to Eleanor or tell me whose turn it was to do what. What are the steps of loving? They exist uniquely between every two people who attempt to climb them.

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