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[A] gorgeous first novel...Raw and vital, Autobiography of Us leaves us marveling at the strange, beautiful architecture of redemption.--Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements Engaging...Explores the loves, losses, and shifting friendship of two privileged Southern California girls.--People Delicate, bittersweet.--USAToday.com Powerful...Both moving and engrossing.--Parade. Plays out [two] friends' complicated dynamic against a tableau of enormous changes for women...[Autobiography of Us] blossoms in stirring and surprising ways.--The New York Times [A] sharply imagined debut...Sloss writes with assured grace, capturing the conflicted sensibilities of a generation of women.--O, The Oprah Magazine. An homage to friendship.--Marie Claire Every female friendship has a script of its own. The one playing out in this debut novel is a gripping hybrid--Beaches crossed with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.--More Magazine. A fiercely intelligent and captivating debut and an intimate portrait of female friendship, Autobiography of Us illuminates the challenges faced by an entire generation of American women.--Jennifer Vanderbes, author of Easter Island and Strangers at the Feast. A smooth first-person narrative...The story's hopeful end is tempered with the realization that, had the central characters been born a generation later, maybe their lives would have been better.--Publishers Weekly. Captivating, engrossing, surprising...Sloss' debut novel sweeps across the tumultuous events of the late 1950s through the 1980s and...celebrates the terrible struggle to find one's identity as it elegiacally rues the necessary losses.--Kirkus. At its heart, the novel is a tragic elegy to spirited women in decades past who were forced to silence their dreams and desires, and whose lives were not what they might otherwise have been. Shelf Awareness --Various