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The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe, tells the story of Mia and Lor, as they grow from young girls to women, and the journey is filled with sun tans and lemon juice, giggling, and trips to the mall. But it's also filled with heartbreak and conflict, growing pains and despair. Mia and Lorrie Ann live in the California town of Corona del. THE GIRLS FROM CORONA DEL MAR. by Rufi Thorpe. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON Thorpe brings sensitivity to her well-trodden terrain of female friendship and dilemmas of choice, but Mia's journey of discovery about herself and her "opposite twin" feels excessively binary. The Girls from Corona del Mar Rufi Thorpe. Knopf, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. A Weird, Wonderful, Tiny Place: PW Talks with Rufi Thorpe.
RUFI THORPE received her MFA from the University of Virginia in Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She lives in California with her husband and sons. An astonishing debut about friendships made in youth, The Girls from Corona del Mar is a fiercely beautiful novel about how these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or endure. Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. In the opening chapter of Rufi Thorpe’s debut novel, “The Girls From Corona del Mar,” year-old best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann get drunk on jug wine with the intention of breaking one of.
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