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First Love: Essays on Friendship
Lilly Dancyger
★★★★· Published 2024· 224 pages· read 2025
Essays about female friendship, each one anchored in a real friend of Dancyger's, including the cousin she adored who was murdered at twenty. Grief-streaked and unflinching about how much these loves shape us.
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Nothing Good Can Come from This
Kristi Coulter
Sharp, funny essays about drinking, quitting, and being a high-achieving woman in a world that hands you wine for everything. Coulter is very good company.
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
C.J. Hauser
Essays circling a called-off wedding, marriage, and how we love. The title essay alone is worth it.
★ 5I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
Mary Laura Philpott
Philpott's essays on the quiet crisis of a life that looks perfect on paper. Funny, honest, and comforting.