Change was often incremental, almost imperceptible to the observer. Failing to see it didn’t mean it wasn’t happening.
– Kerry Kletter, East Coast Girls
Kerry Kletter
Maybe most people just accepted what they could tolerate because it was familiar.
– Kerry Kletter, East Coast Girls
So many women she knew were cheated on or abused or simply in the wrong relationship. When she was younger, she could never understand why women stayed with men like that. But now she could see how easy it would be to sink into an offering of love, no matter how inadequate. Just for the relief of not having to look for it anymore.
– Kerry Kletter, East Coast Girls
She often thought of the cruel trick society played on women, inundating them with messages that they weren’t enough and then telling them they could fix it by starving themselves, knowing that, like Harlow’s monkeys, people needed love and comfort and even more than food. And all along what women carried, what they perceived as excess weight, was merely the shame they’d been force-fed before they could identify its taste.
– Kerry Kletter, East Coast Girls
Mini-Review: East Coast Girls by Kerry Kletter
I deeply enjoyed this character-driven novel about friendship and the long-term effects of trauma.
One of my favorite things is how different each of the girls is, and how each time the POV shifts you can feel that difference in the writing.
I am always excited to find platonic love in stories and this book was so full of love it practically flowed from the pages.
East Coast Girls was well written and infinitely quotable, and I recommend it to older YA fans (the 20+ crowd), anyone looking to get into the New Adult genre, and fans of Women’s Lit.
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