{"product_id":"the-brittanys-9780593311738","title":"The Brittanys","description":"\u003cb\u003eBursting 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Brittanys\u003c\/i\u003e shimmers with the everyday incandescence of youth\" (Kimberly King Parsons, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Light\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows their name(s). \u003ci\u003eThe Brittanys.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrittany Rosenberg: drives her golf cart around her subdivision to meet boys. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrittany Gottlieb: insists you can't lose your virginity if you haven't gotten your period. (She \u003ci\u003eheard\u003c\/i\u003e it somewhere!) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrittany Tomassi: is from\u003ci\u003e New York\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrittany 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExcept 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA VINTAGE ORIGINAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBRITTANY ACKERMAN's debut essay collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Perpetual Motion Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, was the winner of Red Hen Press's Nonfiction Award. She has a creative writing MFA from Florida Atlantic University, and has attended the Writing by Writers Methow Valley Workshop and the Mont Blanc Workshop in Chamonix, France, as well as a residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. \u003ci\u003eThe Brittanys\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50379714363666,"sku":"9780593311738","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b2fa136d-4ba4-4a4c-a770-257a9956752f.jpg?v=1728667381","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-brittanys-9780593311738","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}