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The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship |  | Author: Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher: Gotham
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 2512
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1St Edition
Pages: 297
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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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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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 the girls from ames February 26, 2010
J. Payne (Wheeling, WV USA)
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.
 what a missed opportunity January 11, 2010
poopsie (portola valley, ca)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My sister gave me this book as a Christmas present, which was a lovely gesture. Having just attended my 30th high school reunion, I easily could have fallen in love with the book. I did not. Great potential here for a warm and poignant story, but my conclusion was the same as others who have given this a low rating: factual, clinical, documentary-like in style, no humor, downright dull. Mr. Zaslow writes for the Wall St. Journal. Mr. Zaslow should have stuck with the Wall St. Journal. i would assert that it was presumptuous of him to try given that he is a man...but it would make me feel bad to do so because i think he tried REALLY HARD to make it good book. Anyway, the gals were not remarkable (as some have noted) -- but their friendship was. Huge missed opportunity to give the job of writing the story to, as my 11-year-old daughter puts it, a "dude" -- and a dude who happens to be awfully boring.
disappointing January 10, 2010
MichiganMommy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was disappointed in this book. I wanted to like it - the concept is fun, but I got nothing out of it and was ready for it to end halfway through. Poorly written and the little "research" additions on friendships and its impact on quality of life took away from the story line and were distracting.
 Tells It Like It Is January 4, 2010
Expectant (Columbus, OH)
This is the only book that I ever felt captured women's friendships like they really are. This book about 10 average girls who remained friends through adulthood and to this day. Although it was written by a man, you get to see their lives unfold from their perspective. What it captures best is how, no matter where they were in their lives, though divorce and children (and one of the group died young), they were always there for each other.
This is something no man I know- even my own husband!- has with his friends. What you get from this book is that it makes you feel how special and precious your own friendships are. I always thought it but now I'll remember to appreciate them and tel them. My group is smaller, but most of us have been close since middle school (I'm a little younger than the "girls" from Ames) and all are still a really important part of my life, even though we went to different colleges and only a few of us stayed in Ohio.
I recommend this book highly. I bought it for my group for Christmas, but I'd probably have sent them copies anyway. Do youself a favor and read it.
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