Books by Lilly Dancyger
“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...
Tyler Wetherall, Memoirist
Interviews where books by Lilly Dancyger were recommended
Memoirs of Girlhood, recommended by Tyler Wetherall
Our teenage years are often fraught with emotion, experimentation and the crises that arise with the coming of age. Here, the novelist and memoirist Tyler Wetherall discusses the memoirs of girlhood in which she found echoes of her own experiences—and perhaps you will too.
