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Mid-1990s, New York City. Patti, Angela, Emma, and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life after graduation. Their dreams for the future differ greatly—Angela wants to become a poet, Emma and Nikki are both going to college, and Patti is a young mother seeking stability in her son’s life—but all four bright young women are staunchly loyal to each other in a way that only teenage girls know how to be. Their lives are completely turned upside down when, after being sexually assaulted, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grieving, angry, and forced to return to everyday life without a satisfying recourse for their feelings, the girls must come of age with a new understanding about the patriarchal world in which they live.
