The Girls from Corona del Mar

by Rufi Thorpe

Best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann couldn’t be more different; where Mia is reckless and proudly hard-hearted, Lorrie Ann is kind, serenely beautiful, and seemingly immune to the kind of teenage mistakes that Mia can’t help but make.
 
But within a few years, fortunes change. Suddenly, Mia is free to grow up and adventure, falling in and out of love while Lorrie Ann is weighed down by responsibilities at home. And when good, nice, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia must question how well she ever really knew her best friend in the first place.  

• ISBN10: 080417007X
• ISBN13: 9780804170079
• Publish Date: 9 June 2015 (first published 1 January 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Vintage Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780804170079

Reviews

[laughingrachel]

I don't like writing book reviews very much because I always find it hard to strike a balance between conveying the general idea of the book without giving much of the plot away and making it a less enjoyable read.

So all I'll say about the Girls from Corona Del Mar is that it is a very well written and interesting book, actually told almost entirely through flashbacks. It's a beautiful, evocative story about all the tragedies of life growing up. How dealing with them can make you a different person, how growing up means having to constantly reevaluate who you are and where you fit into the world.

It's one of those books that when you finish it, you might find yourself just sitting with the closed book on your lap for quite some time - just thinking.