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The Brittanys
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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The Brittanys
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Publisher's Summary
Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly voiced debut that captures what it's like to be a teenage girl - “full of brilliantly rendered awkwardness and the hilarious minor horrors of a privileged adolescence, The Brittanys shimmers with the everyday incandescence of youth.” (Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light)
They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows their name(s). The Brittanys.
Brittany Rosenberg: drives her golf cart around her subdivision to meet boys.
Brittany Gottlieb: insists you can't lose your virginity if you haven't gotten your period. (She heard it somewhere!)
Brittany Tomassi: is from New York.
Brittany Jensen: once threw her tampon into a stranger's swimming pool. A brash, bold, unapologetic tomboy. And the greatest person in the whole wide world.
At least as far as the fifth Brittany - our narrator - is concerned. Even within their friend group, she and Jensen are a duo: with their matching JanSport backpacks, Tiffany chokers, and Victoria's Secret push-up bras, they are unstoppable. And now that they're finally growing up, they're going to do everything: dye their hair, attend no-parent parties, try pot... maybe even lose their virginities. 2004 is totally going to be their year!
Except, Jensen's interests may be diverging from her friends'. And within our narrator's own family - in the lives of her exhausted mother and beloved, genius older brother - life-changing events may be taking shape. Events that only years later, looking back, she has the perspective to see.
A Vintage Original
Critic Reviews
"I’ve never read any book that captures so perfectly all the sweet and bitter and mess and tenderness and hard lessons in being 14. Nor the highly specific, totally unfakeable feeling of the year 2004. Brittany Ackerman must have kept the most detailed diary. Her voice in The Brittanys, naive yet seeing all, looking both forward and backward, always figuring and looking for wisdom. I found every page of this book to be the perfect mix of entertaining, satisfying, questioning, and moving. It glows with Ackerman’s love for her characters. I could have stayed inside it forever." (Sarah Gerard, author of True Love)
“Full of brilliantly-rendered awkwardness and the hilarious minor horrors of a privileged adolescence, The Brittanys shimmers with the everyday incandescence of youth - car rides and homework, tampons and eyeliner, questionable fashion choices. Ackerman writes convincingly and empathetically about fourteen-year-old girls caught in that painful, exhilarating span of becoming. For anyone who has ever dyed their own hair, worn an absurd outfit, had a crush on someone ridiculous, or said the wrong thing - in other words, for anyone who was once a teenager - this book is for you.” (Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light)
“The Brittanys. Teenage girls who really have everything: youth, beauty, swimming pools, and private school. And so much pressure. I read Brittany Ackerman’s page-turning debut novel The Brittanys with my heart on my sleeve.” (Marcy Dermansky, author of Very Nice)