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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
★★★★· Published 2005· 269 pages
A deep female friendship in 19th-century China, written in a secret women's language. Beautiful and heartbreaking.
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Swing Time
Zadie Smith
Two mixed-race girls who love to dance, and the friendship that shapes and divides them. Ambitious Zadie Smith.
★ 5Friendship
Emily Gould
Two best friends in New York hit the point where their lives start to diverge. Gould nails that specific late-twenties friendship ache.
Truth & Beauty
Ann Patchett
Patchett's memoir of her fierce, complicated friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. One of the great books about platonic love.