That’s when I decided to check out my thirtieth birthday-in a year so far away that it sounded like science fiction. Darcy had double-pierced ears and a sibling-even if it was just a brother, it was better than being an only child as I was.īut at least I was a few months older and she would never quite catch up. And a pair of fifty-dollar Guess jeans with zippers at the ankles (ditto).
Forenza sweaters in turquoise, red, and peach (my mother allowed me none-said they were too trendy and expensive). Her moonwalk was superior, as were her cartwheels and her front handsprings (I couldn’t do a handspring at all). Her skin tanned more quickly, her hair feathered more easily, and she didn’t need braces. So we located our birthdays in the following year, mine in May and hers in September. My best friend Darcy and I came across a perpetual calendar in the back of the phone book, where you could look up any date in the future, and by using this little grid determine what the day of the week would be. I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. “Something Borrowed surprisingly goes beyond a selfish quest for love to take a semi-critical look at female friendships.” It’s a gamble to cast her heroine in a potentially unsympathetic light, but Giffin manages to create empathy for her likable characters without cheapening the complexity of their situation, making for a genuinely wining tale.” It is as much about the meaning and value of friendship as it is about love, and it takes some risky chances that pay off….
“Giffin’s compelling debut truly stands out. “One of the hottest books of the summer…Giffin avoids what could have been a cliché-ridden tale by skillfully developing Rachel and her best friend Darcy into three-dimensional characters.” “Dead-on dialogue, real-life complexity, and genuine warmth.” “Sharply observed and beautifully etched.” “Something Borrowed captures what it’s like to be thirty and single in the city, when your life pretty much revolves around friendships and love and their attendant complexities.” “Giffin depicts the complex, shifting relationship of Rachel and Darcy, friends since grade school, into the five months between Darcy’s engagement and her wedding date. You may never think of friendships-their duties, the oblique dances of power, and their give and-take-quite the same way again.” “Something Borrowed is both hilarious and thoughtfully written, resisting the frequent tendency of first-time novelists to make their characters and situations a little too black-and-white. “This page-turning, heartbreakingly honest debut deftly depicts the hopeful hearts behind an unsympathetic situation.”
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