Commencement
J. Courtney Sullivan
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
J. Courtney Sullivan’s celebrated debut novel is a sparkling tale of friendship and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose. <br><br>Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, Celia, Bree, Sally, and April couldn’t have less in common. Celia, a lapsed Catholic, arrives with a bottle of vodka in her suitcase; beautiful Bree pines for the fiancé she left behind in Savannah; Sally, preppy and obsessively neat, is reeling from the loss of her mother; and April, a radical, redheaded feminist wearing a “Riot: Don’t Diet” T-shirt, wants a room transfer immediately. Written with radiant style and a wicked sense of humor, <i>Commencement </i>follows these unlikely friends through college and the years beyond, brilliantly capturing the complicated landscape facing young women today.<br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></br></br></br></br>