Título: First Love: Essays on Friendship
Autor: Lilly Dancyger
Sinopse: A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space
“A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—Elle
Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any romance. When her beloved cousin was murdered just as both girls were entering adulthood, Dancyger’s devotion to the women in her life took on a new urgency—a desire to hold her friends close while she still could. In First Love, this urgency runs through a striking exploration of the bonds between women, from the intensity of adolescent best friendship and fluid sexuality to mothering and chosen family.
Each essay in this incisive collectionis grounded in a close female friendship in Dancyger’s life, reaching outward to dissect cultural assumptions about identity and desire, and the many ways women create space for each other in a world that wants us small. Seamlessly weaving personal experience with literature and pop culture—ranging from fairy tales to true crime, from Anaïs Nin and Sylvia Plath to Heavenly Creatures and the “sad girls” of Tumblr—Dancyger’s essays form a kaleidoscopic story of a life told through friendships, and an expansive interrogation of what it means to love each other.
Though friendship will never be enough to keep us safe from the dangers of the world, Dancyger reminds us that love is always worth the risk, and that when tragedy strikes, it’s our friends who will help us survive. In First Love, these essential bonds get their due.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “First Love: Essays on Friendship”, de Lilly Dancyger, publicado pela editora The Dial Press, em 2024 e com 224 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: The Dial Press
Páginas: 224
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0593447573
ISBN13: 9780593447574
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora The Dial Press costumam explorar histórias humanas marcadas por dilemas pessoais profundos, muitas vezes em ambientes cotidianos, como resorts à beira-mar ou grandes centros urbanos. O catálogo traz narrativas que transitam entre o humor e o drama, abordando temas como burnout, relações familiares complexas e reconstrução após traumas. A linguagem tende a ser acessível, com ritmo que varia do leve e bem-humorado ao mais introspectivo e reflexivo. Há uma atenção clara à experiência emocional dos personagens, que frequentemente enfrentam desafios internos e externos, como doenças, perdas e recomeços.
