- 390 pages
- English
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About this book
Sometimes you have to go back before you can move forward. Meg Monahan was born to be a secret keeper. From the moment she became a peer counselor in high school, Meg has been keeping her friends secrets – from sordid family drama to their sex lives – that she never wanted to know. Flash forward to adulthood when Meg is a recruiter for the world's hippest (and most paranoid) high-tech company – and now Meg is a professional secret keeper. When sudden tragedy strikes before Meg hosts the wedding of her childhood BFF, Anne Calzaretta, the women are forced to face their past – and their secrets – in order to move on to their future. In 1978, Meg, Anne, Jennifer, and Tonya were such close friends, they were known as "The Group" in their hometown of Gridley, California. But in ninth grade, their lives were changed forever. Loss, lies, and secrets separated them, but could not break their bonds of friendship. Thirty years later, Meg and Anne reminisce about those days—dealing with parents, school, boys, sex, love, and betrayal. Anne remembers their freshman year as an easier time, but Meg, still feeling guilty about a betrayal of Anne's trust, is haunted. Even now, Meg is keeping a secret she's not prepared to face, let alone share. In her debut novel, based on true events, Meredith First tells a timeless story about the bonds of friendship, loss, and betrayal—and the forgiveness that is within everyone. Can anyone really keep a secret forever?
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1: Seeing Jesus and The Virgin Diaries
- CHAPTER 2: It’s a Hybrid Life for Me
- CHAPTER 3: Afri-Mex-Italians and Other Faux Ethnic Groups
- CHAPTER 4: Countdown to a Gridley Girls Wedding: Twenty-Six Days
- CHAPTER 5: The Kegger Kidnapping
- CHAPTER 6: Letters from the Front Lines of Bad Grammar
- CHAPTER 7: Countdown to a Gridley Girls Wedding: Twenty-Three Days
- CHAPTER 8: Trampy Sandy?
- CHAPTER 9: Family Period
- CHAPTER 10: Is Virgindom Even a Word?
- CHAPTER 11: Secret Bond
- CHAPTER 12: Countdown to a Gridley Girls Wedding: Twenty-Two Days
- CHAPTER 13: Homecoming with Lucy and Ethel
- CHAPTER 14: Love Is Thicker Than Water
- CHAPTER 15: Countdown to a Gridley Girls Wedding: Fifteen Days
- CHAPTER 16: Homecoming Queenie
- CHAPTER 17: Talk of the Grope
- CHAPTER 18: It’s Not You, It’s Me
- CHAPTER 19: Confession
- CHAPTER 20: Reconciliation
- CHAPTER 21: Countdown to a Gridley Girls Wedding: Thirteen Days
- CHAPTER 22: What Would Jesus Do?
- CHAPTER 23: Drunken Pigs
- CHAPTER 24: Dr. Laura Says, “People Die. Get Over It and Go!”
- CHAPTER 25: Breaking the Vows of Virgindom
- CHAPTER 26: Reality
- CHAPTER 27: Rebirth through Death
- CHAPTER 28: Really, God, We Haven’t Been through Enough?
- CHAPTER 29: The Dream
- CHAPTER 30: Reunited
- CHAPTER 31: Face Your Fears and Move On
- CHAPTER 32: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- CHAPTER 33: Countdown to a Gridley Girls Wedding: Four Days
- CHAPTER 34: Crazy and the Spinster
- CHAPTER 35: She’s Baaaaaaack
- CHAPTER 36: A Gridley Girl’s Wedding
- CHAPTER 37: Here Comes My Girl
- GRIDLEY GIRLS GUIDE TO SEVENTIES POP CULTURE
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- GRIDLEY GIRLS YEARBOOK
- A READER’S CLUB GUIDE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- IN MEMORIAM
- Enjoy an excerpt from the upcoming: GRIDLEY GIRLS REUNITED
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- About SparkPress
- SELECTED TITLES FROM SPARKPRESS
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