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“With remarkable candor, wit, and wisdom, Susanna Sonnenberg fearlessly examines her female friendships since childhood, brilliantly articulating the ways each sustained, sometimes devastated, and ultimately defined her. She Matters: A Life in Friendships is a dazzling, poetic love letter to what women share, an unforgettable memoir you’ll immediately want to pass along to friends.”
— Kate Walbert, New York Times bestselling author
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“In her stunning second memoir, a collection of linked
essays, Sonnenberg finds universal truths in her experiences of female
friendship.”
— People (4-star review)
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“Sonnenberg’s book reminds us how profoundly we’re
affected by our friendships….You’ll want to share this with, yes, a friend.”
— Parade
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“She Matters
lingers with you, inviting you to construct a patchwork quilt of your own life
and salute the many women who helped you along the way.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“She Matters artfully reveals the depth and gravity of love between women as they make sense of the changing and often treacherous emotional and logistical terrain of their forward-moving lives.”
— Boston Globe
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“Sonnenberg’s memoir is a dark and intriguing piece of
writing, a brutal self-examination of her relationships with women.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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“Sonnenberg, who’s aware of her passions and ambivalences,
and doesn’t hide from them, made me think about what a friendship is,
anyway…She’s written something that interests, exhausts, moves, perplexes,
impresses, and, yes, matters.”
— NPR, All Things Considered
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“Sonnenberg is a beautiful writer…In this gallery of
friendships, the portrait of each woman is so well drawn we grasp their
significance and savor the intimacy.”
— New York Daily News
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“[Sonnenberg’s] vivid prose is confessional and
precise…Sonnenberg’s intensity might be rough on friendships, but it makes for
charged storytelling.”
— Dallas Morning News
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“These are the stories of real women. Sonnenberg’s
hard-core honesty, sharp detail, and lovely prose make this a collection worth
passing on to a friend.”
— Minneapolis Star Tribune
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“A fiercely intimate look at the significant female relationships in the author’s life and how they’ve come to define her.”
— Missoula Independent
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“Sonnenberg’s strikingly honest depictions of tumultuous female alliances and confessions about friendships are both moving and relatable; her depth of reflection and incandescent prose marks this exceptional memoir as a must-read to share among friends.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“The book’s honesty, eloquence, laugh-out-loud humor, finely wrought prose, and magnificent scope will keep readers eagerly turning the pages.”
— BookPage
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“A mesmerizing and meticulously written work.”
— Library Journal
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“With heart-rending precision, Sonnenberg offers an eloquent narrative that not only exposes but embraces the fraught nature of women’s relationships with each other.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“She Matters is so finely nuanced, so joyously serious, so wildly playful—to live with it, page by page, is a deep pleasure.”
— Nick Flynn, author of The Reenactments
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“Sonnenberg dances close to the fire on every page, unmasking female friendship as a liberating, dangerous, and rigorous art. She Matters renders the messy self with gorgeous clarity. It’s the truest, most human book I’ve read all year—generous, hiliarious, ecstatic, and profound.”
— Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution