Authors: Rachel Bertsche
Offill, Jenny and Elissa Schappel.
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women’s True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out, or Faded Away.
New York: Doubleday, 2005.
Patchett, Ann.
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship.
New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Zaslow, Jeffrey.
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship.
New York: Gotham, 2009.
Blume, Judy.
Just as Long as We’re Together.
New York: Delacorte, 1987.
Brashares, Ann.
The Last Summer (of You & Me).
New York: Riverhead, 2007.
Dart, Iris Rainer.
Beaches.
New York: Bantam, 1985.
Martin, Ann M.
The Baby-Sitters Club
series. New York: Scholastic.
Sullivan, J. Courtney.
Commencement.
New York: Vintage, 2009.
Weiner, Jennifer.
Best Friends Forever.
New York: Atria, 2009.
Crosley, Sloane.
I Was Told There’d Be Cake.
New York: Riverhead, 2008.
Fey, Tina.
Bossypants.
New York: Reagan Arthur, 2011.
Jacobs, A. J.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Kaling, Mindy.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
New York: Crown Archetype, 2011.
Rubin, Gretchen.
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.
New York: Harper, 2009.
R
ACHEL
B
ERTSCHE
is a journalist in Chicago, where she lives with her husband. Her work has appeared in
Marie Claire, More, Teen Vogue, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Fitness, Women’s Health
,
CNN.com
, and more. Before leaving New York (and all her friends) for the Midwest, Bertsche was an editor at
O: The Oprah Magazine.