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The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship |  | Author: Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 3010
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1St Edition
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1592404456
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.40922777546
EAN: 9781592404452
ASIN: 1592404456
Publication Date: April 21, 2009
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Product Description
From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.
Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed to maintain an enduring friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, a child's illness and the mysterious death of one member of their group. Capturing their remarkable story, The Girls from Ames is a testament to the deep bonds of women as they experience life's joys and challenges -- and the power of friendship to triumph over heartbreak and unexpected tragedy.
The girls, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend. Photograph by photograph, recollection by recollection, occasionally with tears and often with great laughter, their sweeping and moving story is shared by Jeffrey Zaslow, Wall Street Journal columnist, as he attempts to define the matchless bonds of female friendship. It demonstrates how close female relationships can shape every aspect of women's lives - their sense of themselves, their choice of men, their need for validation, their relationships with their mothers, their dreams for their daughters - and reveals how such friendships thrive, rewarding those who have committed to them.
The Girls from Ames is the story of a group of ordinary women who built an extraordinary friendship. With both universal insights and deeply personal moments, it is a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.
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 "Like a warm chocolate chip cookie" March 18, 2010
Candice A. Marschke (Atlanta, Georgia)
A friend who I lost touch with over the years and consequently regained it gave me this book to read. The book is well written, an enjoyable easy read and gives you that cozy, warm, comfortable feeling like "A warm chocolate chip cookie does right out of the oven". There is truly something about having people in your life who know "YOU" know your history and love you anyway. This book captures the essence of that kind of deep, intimate love that leaves no doubt! This is a telling story of what really matters in life and love and the relationships we choose to surround ourselves with. I recommend for young women!
 True to Life, at 72 I've Been There March 17, 2010
Rochelle (Webster,NY USA)
While reading this book I thought of all the friendships I've kept since my earliest days in school starting 60 years ago. I also noted the friendships my daughter maintains with her three friends from Junior High. I didn't do the drinking etc. that those girls did, but sleep overs, concerts,opera, singing and staying up late together were all part of our routine. We were Music and Arters and special from the start. We still see each other and talk often. Another friend of just 35 years and I stayed with each other during the nights and recovery from our cancer surgeries.
I applaud this wonderful book and how frank they were in telling their stories. Friendship is a precious commodity.
heartwarming vignettes of friendship March 12, 2010
Cynthia Wilcox (near omaha, nebraska)
i truly enjoyed this book. i did not find it trite nor patronizing. it made me wish i had such friendship(s)that followed me throughout my days.
one, perhaps, may need to be a bit of a "nosey parker" about peeking into other's lives and these women seem honest and appeared to hold not to much back.
amazing job, well done. couldn't have been the easiest of tasks to write this book. i say this as we all have our own take on how a certain event evolved or took place. so the author dealt with so many facets of history being remembered.
good read.
 the girls from ames February 26, 2010
J. Payne (Wheeling, WV USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
if there was a zero star, that is how i would rate this book.....very poorly written...the author potentially had a story here...but the book felt like a report on the minutia of these women's keg-party and mean-spirited girlhoods...surely they have matured into women that we would want to know!!! if not, i encourage these women to find some source of real meaning in their lives...and write about it! i finished this book, only as an obligation to my book club...we are a group of contributing, socially conscious women who have been friends, and meeting for 25 years...older than the girls from ames...and somehow...even despite our ages...we have found meaning, purpose and worth in our lives...despite the author's assurance that women our ages can't really experience true meaning or relationship wth each other...reference pg: 88 first paragraph...how completely arrogant!
the truly meaningful moments in this book were glossed over in mere sentences...eg: christie's real father giving up all rights to her, so she could be adopted by bruce....imagine that!... a gigantic life decision for all parties involved, in one sentence....entire people were glossed over...angela...with inflammatory breast cancer...we hardly know her..don't waste your time or money...sorry girls from ames....you are not that interesting...
Sisterhood January 30, 2010
S. Montrose (South Carolina)
This book was a good example of girl friendships in a group setting. The author really did a good job at explaining each personality....it was just harder to connect emotionally to the characters. All in all, a good book for women who have had long-lasting friendships.
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