First Love: Essays on Friendship

“She’s a wonderful writer. This book revolves around the central essay about the tragic murder of her cousin Sabina when Sabina was a teenager and Lilly was 23. They were not only cousins, but best friends, two peas in a pod. She writes that they didn’t see the other as being distinct. There’s a real sense of being bound, and how beautiful this is—loving someone in that way where you are defined by them, and they by you. The adoration of that kind of friendship—it becomes part of you for ever. So this first love with Sabina is the frame for Lilly’s exploration, with each subsequent essay focusing on a different formative friendship through her coming of age until the present.” Read more...

Memoirs of Girlhood

Tyler Wetherall, Memoirist