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Why
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Stewart poignantly and beautifully captures the bittersweet
nature of the friendship's women build their lives around. It's a
compellingly genuine story about the memories that never fade and the friends we never
forget. Maybe we can go home again... ~Beth
People
Magazine
A
smart, exceedingly well-written story about the most intimate
friendships between women. You'll be reading into the wee hours.
From
The Publisher
When
Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come
between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant
with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian
Oliver Doucet.
When an
unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that
ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s
urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left
her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a
mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose,
Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find
this stranger who was once her inseparable other half.
The
Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia’s
friendship—as intense as any love affair—and its dramatic demise,
captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers
after the end of an important relationship. Searingly honest, beautiful,
and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a
celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who
still feels the absence of that first true friend.
From
Publishers Weekly
Stewart
peers into the complicated heart of friendship in a moving second novel
(after 2000's Body of a Girl). Ever since a cataclysmic falling out
with her best friend, Sonia, after college, Cameron's closest companion
has been Oliver, the 92-year-old historian she lives with and cares for in
Oxford, Miss. Oliver's death leaves Cameron alone and adrift, until she
discovers that he has given her one last task: she must track down her
estranged best friend (whose letter announcing her engagement Cameron had
so recently ignored) and deliver a mysterious present to her. Cameron's
journey leads her back to the people, places and memories of their shared
past, when they called themselves "Cameronia" and swore to be
friends forever. It was a relationship more powerful than romantic
love—yet romantic love (or sex, anyway) could still wreck it. Stewart
lures the reader forward with two unanswered questions: What was the
disaster that ended their friendship, and what will be revealed when
Cameron and Sonia are together again and Oliver's package is finally
opened? The book is heartfelt and its characters believable jigsaw puzzles
of insecurities, talents and secrets, and if Cameron's carefully guarded
anger makes her occasionally disagreeable, readers will nevertheless
welcome her happy ending.
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