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Overview

The instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became, from the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture

As children, they formed a special bond, growing up in the small town of Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eighth different states, yet they managed to maintain an extraordinary friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, the death of a child, and the mysterious death of the eleventh member of their group. Capturing their remarkable story, The Girls from...

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Overview

The instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became, from the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture

As children, they formed a special bond, growing up in the small town of Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eighth different states, yet they managed to maintain an extraordinary friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, the death of a child, and the mysterious death of the eleventh member of their group. Capturing their remarkable story, The Girls from Ames is a testament to the enduring, deep bonds of women as they experience life's challenges, and the power of friendship to overcome even the most daunting odds.

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. The Girls from Ames 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. With both universal events and deeply personal moments, it's a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.

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An in-depth look at the enduring bond of friendship among a tightly knit group of middle-class Midwestern women born in the early 1960s. Through his popular "Moving On" column in the Wall Street Journal, which focuses on transitions in women's friendships, Zaslow (co-author: The Last Lecture, 2008) was introduced to the women featured here. The author briefly profiles all 11, but avoids an overcrowded portrait by focusing on four: strait-laced Marilyn, fun-loving Karla, outspoken Kelly and Sheila, whose death at 22 remains mysterious. The author spent time with them, looked at their photo albums, read their teenage notes and diaries, met their families and pored over the reply-all e-mails that have kept the group in close touch for the past decade. Zaslow also attended their annual reunion in 2007, an event he vividly recounts here. He records their happy reminiscences of high-school hijinks, their sometimes bittersweet recollections of adolescent misadventures, their connections with each other as their lives took separate paths and their continued warm support for each other as major events-marriages, births, divorces, deaths-impacted their lives. When breast cancer struck two of them in middle age, Zaslow shows the emotional help and encouragement they received from the others. Although his portrait of the group is mostly positive, he does not overlook the negative aspects of adolescent exclusivity, revealing how other classmates viewed them as a snobbish clique. Zaslow also reports briefly on research that has highlighted the difference between male bonding and female bonding, and the importance of friendship in the lives of women. A heartwarming account, ripe for discussion inwomen's book clubs and women's studies classes.
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What's so special about the 11 women who grew up together in Ames, Iowa, who are the subject of Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship? Well, nothing really -- and yet, in another sense, everything. With this book, Zaslow, who writes The Wall Street Journal's "Moving On" column, has set out to explore long-term female friendships -- what makes them tick, how they evolve, what they mean to women -- selecting this tightly bound group who grew up amid midwestern cornfields in the '60s and '70s and came of age in the '80s, specifically because they are so typical. "Born at the end of the baby boom, their memories are evocative of their times," Zaslow writes. "Born in the middle of the country, they now live everywhere else, but carry Ames with them. Their story is universal, even common, and on that level it can't help but resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend." To be sure, the particulars of these women's stories -- their personal tragedies, joys, and inside jokes -- are all their own. (Though a few years after they were teenagers driving around Iowa in their clunker cars, looking for a party, experimenting with alcohol and sex, and learning where they fit in, I was doing the same thing with my friends in my own Illinois town.) So while Karla, Kelly, Marilyn, Jane, Jenny, Karen, Cathy, Angela, Sally, Diana, and Sheila may be nothing like your friends from high school, or mine, their shared experiences and continuing bonds are something many of us can recognize. And to appreciate their friendships is to appreciate our own. --Amy Reiter

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592404452
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/21/2009
  • Pages: 297
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeffrey Zaslow
Jeffrey Zaslow

Jeffrey Zaslow is a Wall Street Journal columnist and, with Randy Pausch, coauthor of The Last Lecture, the #1 New York Times bestseller now translated into forty-one languages. Zaslow attended Dr. Pausch’s famous lecture and wrote the story that sparked worldwide interest in it. The Girls from Ames also grew out of one of Zaslow’s columns. He lives in suburban Detroit with his wife, Sherry, and daughters Jordan, Alex, and Eden.

Biography

Jeffrey Zaslow is one of a handful of journalists who have carved successful careers out of the human side of reportage. In 1987, while working for the Wall Street Journal, he learned of a competition sponsored by the Chicago Sun-Times to replace retired advice columnist Ann Landers. Seeking an angle for a feature story, he entered the contest and ended up winning the job over a field of more than 12,000 applicants. He worked for the Sun Times from 1987 until 2001, dispensing sage, common-sense advice and using his journalistic influence to benefit several charities and community causes.

Zaslow has returned to writing for Wall Street Journal, but his features, unlike those of his colleagues, are not centered on the world of finance. In an award-winning column called "Moving On," he chronicles the often emotionally charged human interest stories behind various life transitions -- from marriage to divorce and from career change to retirement. It was in pursuit of just such a story that he found his greatest fame.

In 2007, Zaslow learned about an unusual event to be held at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University. A computer science professor named Randy Pausch was scheduled to take part in a popular series of campus talks that invites teachers to present hypothetical "last lectures" to their students. But, what made this talk different was the total absence of hypothesis: Recently diagnosed with end-stage pancreatic cancer. Pausch was, indeed, addressing the student body for the last time. Zaslow attended the jam-packed lecture and wrote about it in his column, helping to fuel worldwide interest and an Internet phenomenon. Pausch and Zaslow collaborated on The Last Lecture, a book-length narrative that served not just as a compendium of life lessons, but as a moving testimony to Pausch's optimism and courage. The book was published in April of 2008 and became an international bestseller. Pausch died three months later.

After Pausch's death, Zaslow returned to a project he had spent many months pursuing: the biography of an extraordinary, enduring friendship among 11 women who had grown up together in the American Midwest. Revelatory, inspiring, and shot through with the optimism and emotional resonance that distinguishes all of Zaslow's writing, The Girls from Ames was published in April of 2009.

Good To Know

Some fun outtakes from our interview with Jeffrey Zaslow:
"I sold hot dogs for 4 years in college in the stands at Philadelphia Phillies games."

"When I was an advice columnist in Chicago, I hosted a singles party for charity every fall. We'd have 7,000 attendees a year, and 78 marriages resulted."

"I had never been to Ames, Iowa, before I began reporting The Girls From Ames."

    1. Hometown:
      West Bloomfield, MI
    1. Date of Birth:
      581006
    2. Place of Birth:
      Philadelphia, PA
    1. Education:
      B.A., Creative Writing, Carnegie Mellon University, 1980

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

A Guide to the Ames Girls 23

1 The Girls in the Photos 29

2 Marilyn 66

3 Karla 101

4 Sheila 128

5 Kelly 151

6 The Things They Remember 184

7 The Intervention 221

8 FBB and Other Secrets 245

9 Defining Love 255

10 "If Not for You" 267

11 The Bonds of Pop Culture 289

12 Their First Child 311

13 Tears in the Ladies' Room 345

14 Cooperation and Appreciation 368

15 News from Ames 404

16 Through Kelly's Eyes 422

17 Mysteries and Memories 457

18 North of Forty 481

19 The Game 497

20 The Women from Ames 509

Acknowledgments 531

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  • Posted April 26, 2009

    Close to my heart

    I saw this book reviewed in a magazine and new I needed to pick it up..so I did at 5 pm and read it straight through until I was done. I could relate on so many levels, I am 47 and grew up in Grand Ledge, Michigan-small town farm town. I also have close friends from my youth, one living near me in California where I have live for 20 plus years. I know those people in that book, the ups, downs marriage-kids-divorce and death. I reccomend it to woman of any age but of course those close to middle age because it is so easy to relate. It made me want to send an e-mail,pick up the phone and call my friends. It also was great to share the stories with my daughter who is 18,at College and dealing with the same issues women deal with,other women and the men in their lives. I can't wait to pass it on to someone I love. I wish the women well and thank them for sharing their memories good and bad.

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 19, 2011

    Recommend you buy the print version

    Loved the book, but definitely disliked the ebook version. Wish I'd had the print version. Could barely decipher all the photos included and had a lot of trouble toggling back to pages to see photos when necessary to check who was who during the story.

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  • Posted November 9, 2009

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    Easy to read but got nothing out of it.

    Read this for a book club and can think of many other ways I could have more productively spent my time. Glad the Girls from Ames have each other but didn't find much of value in the book other than "life can be hard; it is good to have friends." Not exactly an earthshattering concept. Lacked depth. If you are looking for an easy read and enjoy reading about others' quite normal lives, go for it.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2009

    Sounded good but NO!!! What could have been a great novel about a group of women was a terribly written documentary that went beyond boring. It would have been good had one of the women written their story and left Jeffrey Zaslow to his own work.

    I could not get through the first half and returned the book to the store.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 12, 2012

    It was OK

    The book was a bit disjoimted. Our book club couldn't decide if it was a diary or calendar. WAY too many people to keep track of. They didn't think of themselves as 'mean' girls, but there was 1 occasion. They lots of times had certain pairs that were closer. The reason for that is that they wanted to belong, but wouldn't admit they were not quite as close as they thought.
    It wsn't really well-written.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2012

    A Good read

    Interesting documentary/biography about a group of girls who have been friends for life. Recommended!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 11, 2012

    An engrossing read, a true friendship account.

    I was surprised by the format, a chapter about each of the friends, not what I expected. But an engrossing read. Once I got into it, I found it hard to put down. The author does a good job of remaining objective as an observer, engaging my curiousi. Marilyn was my favorite charcter. I found myself wishing these girls had been my friends, yet it caused me to recall childhood friendships with great pleasure. For these women to have all remained close thru their whole lives is a wonderful thing. I am interested to see how our book club reviews it.

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  • Posted September 19, 2011

    Fascinating till the last page

    Fantastic book about those special relationships women share-a must read if you ever had a BBF and still treasure them today!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 22, 2011

    Awesome book

    This is a great book about lasting friendship between women. I have actually met a Karla and Karen. Jennifer Benson now Jennifer Litchman is actually my boss!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 3, 2011

    read. march 2011

    read march 2011

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 6, 2011

    Kritters Ramblings

    Do you keep in contact with those friends from childhood? Do you have girls that you call with all of the good and bad news before anyone else? Are there friendships worth fighting distance, time constraints and obstacles? YES!

    The Girls From Ames was a great book about 11 women who through many different ways came be a very close knit group of girls who have shared absolutely ALL the ups and downs that life can throw at anyone. Divorces, miscarriages and loves lost all bring them together even though they live in very different parts of the US. They have also been able to celebrate many good times from healthy children, job promotions and the men who make their lives complete.

    I absolutely loved this book. I cried. I laughed. I wanted to call all the girls that are currently in my life and those who have been in and out to thank them for their listening ears and the moments we have had. Whether you have kept in touch with childhood friends or not, this book is definitely one to go to pick up and fast.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 20, 2010

    This was an article not a book

    For all women who have a close circle of friends, Mr. Zaslow reinforces what we already know. He reminds us that we support each other most of the time and that our friendships are nurturing. His book left me flat though, providing little insight or true character development. I was frankly bored most of the time.

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  • Posted February 13, 2010

    Not for the lady who does not like getting together with old friends

    In my book club, we had one lady 80+ who has kept in touch with her friends. No one else in the group was in touch with old friends like her. As a result I think older ladies may appreciate it more than younger.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 25, 2010

    Friendships

    This was a great book. I have a group of 10 college friends and so far it's a 10 year friendship. I was able to relate stories from this book to my friendships and it taught me a lot about how friendships continue, go through highs and lows and need to be given a priority.

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  • Posted November 25, 2009

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    For any woman with close friends...

    This book touched my heart. A girlfriend sent it to me, and I passed it on to others. Through this one story of female friendship, Jeffrey Zaslow tells the story of the beauty of all femail frienships. You will laugh, you will cry - you will relate. Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 5, 2009

    What does it take to have friendships last a lifetime?

    The girls are wonderful honest about themselves and each other in this reflective book. The girls share very personal moments in their lives and how it impacted them and their friends. They acknowledge when they feel they have let one another down and how that helped them to grow and become a better person as a result.

    To date, the girls get together each year (although they are constantly in touch). If you have a friend or friendships that have lasted a considerable period of time, what has made your friendship(s) endure?

    The author was extremely sensitive to each of the girls and, despite being given access to their journals, notes, and conversations, made sure that what was written was not embellished or taken out of context. So, when you sit down to read this wonderful book, you will feel that you are there with the author viewing forty years of friendships.

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  • Posted September 21, 2009

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    Lasting Friendships

    This book is an easy read and becomes a catalyst to awaken memories of friendships we've all had throughout our lives. Some of our friendships have been fleeting, but a few have remained special and have been more lasting. This book makes the reader want to reconnect with friends left behind, as life has changed. How special the girls from Ames relationships have been. Following along with their lives as one reads, brings the reader into this group. The reader is soon experiencing the girls' happy moments and times of sadness right along with them. It's totally easy to become very involved in their lives. This book would be a perfect gift for today's friends, as well as, a gift to give to friends with whom one would like to reconnect.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 14, 2009

    A great read

    I loved this book. Being from Iowa might have made it more special but it was such a good explanation of women's friendships as compared to men's friendships. I have women in my life who mirror someone in the book.

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  • Posted September 12, 2009

    good friends book

    This book will make you laugh, and make you cry. Anyone who have stayed in touch with friends from grade school until their 40's must read this.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 12, 2009

    Great book for women of all ages. Have given it to my two daughters and recommended to other women friends. Great gift!

    Reinforces the importance of women's friendship...staying in touch, nurturing those relationships, making time for friends old and new.

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