Girls Our Age

Girls Our Age follows three women — Lily, Ana, and Margot — who became best friends after being randomly assigned as roommates during their first year at Hawthorne. A decade later, each has built a life that looks, from the outside, like it's going according to plan. Lily is engaged to Jack, endlessly supportive and conventionally perfect. Ana teaches fourth grade at Horizon Academy, the alma mater of the long-term boyfriend who's just asked her to move in. Margot is closing in on a big promotion at her ad agency.

When the three friends reunite in Maine for Lily's wedding, the performances they've each been keeping up — for each other and for themselves — start to crack. Phoebe Thompson's debut is a darkly funny, insightful novel about the gap between how women perform romance and success for public consumption and what's actually happening underneath.

It's a book about the specific intimacy and rivalry of a decade-long friendship, and about what it costs to keep curating a life rather than living one.