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Firefly Lane / Kristin Hannah.

Hannah, Kristin, (author.).

Summary:

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the coolest girl in the world moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, this is a poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . .For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780312364083
  • ISBN: 0312364083
  • ISBN: 9780312537074
  • ISBN: 0312537077
  • ISBN: 9781250787972
  • ISBN: 1250787971
  • Physical Description: 479 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A novel"--Dust jacket.
Publisher and paging may vary.
Target Audience Note:
HL730L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5 22 180973.
Subject: Change (Psychology) > Fiction.
Best friends > Fiction.
Friendship in adolescence > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Nineteen seventies > Fiction.
Women's friendships.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 87 of 135 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 3 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 4 current holds with 135 total copies.
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Statesville Main Library F HANNAH (Text) 33114015976418 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/19/2025
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Troutman Branch Library F HANNAH (Text) 33114015976426 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/19/2025