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Pride, Christine.
We are not like them.
We are not like them :
a novel /
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza.
We are not like them :
a novel.
We're not like them :
a novel.
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
New York, NY :
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2021.
©0.
315 pages ;
24 cm.
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The Good Morning America Book Club, a GMA book club pick"--Jacket.
Includes Book Club Favorites reader's guide with discussion questions and a conversation with the authors.
"Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event--a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia. But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen's husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband's freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Covering this career-making story, Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community, her ambitions, and her relationship with her lifelong friend"--
Provided by publisher.
Female friendship
Fiction.
Interracial friendship
Fiction.
Pregnant women
Fiction.
African American women journalists
Fiction.
Police shootings
Fiction.
Race relations
Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa)
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Piazza, Jo,
author.