Girls Girls Girls

De: Shoshana von Blanckensee

Narrado por: Rachel F. Hirsch, Shoshana von Blanckensee

"Girls Girls Girls floored me. . . . It's completely extraordinary." —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich

A vibrant queer Jewish debut "teeming with heart, angst, love, and self discovery" (Emily Austin) about a young woman who, caught between the expectations of others and her own evolving desires, is forced to make a series of fraught life-altering decisions.

It’s the summer of ’96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, free from the harsh gazes of their neighbors and the stifling demands of Hannah’s devout Orthodox Jewish mother. In San Francisco, they will finally be together as a real couple, out in the open, around other queer people. Even if the move means leaving behind Hannah’s beloved Bubbe.

When the financial strains of West Coast living push the girls to start stripping at The Chez Paree—yet another secret Hannah must keep from her family—Hannah feels trapped. Sam wants her at the club, but Hannah hates stripping nearly as much as she hates disappointing Sam. Then Hannah meets Chris, an older butch lesbian, who is immediately taken with her. Desperate to stay in San Francisco, but away from the leering men at the club, Hannah proposes an escort arrangement.

But as Hannah falls deeper into Chris’ world and Sam starts to meet new queer friends, a rift forms between them. Without Sam, who is Hannah? And what does San Francisco mean to Hannah alone—a space rich with queer possibility, or an intimidating, unfamiliar place, just as lonely as the one she’d left behind? An achingly tender and resonant story of survival, first love, and growing up queer in the ’90s, Girls Girls Girls is a piercing exploration of the choices we make in the thrilling and often confounding search for ourselves and home.©2025 Shoshana von Blanckensee (P)2025 Random House Canada

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"[A] propulsive debut. . . .von Blanckensee pulls the reader in with this voice-driven and heartfelt narrative, and adds texture with gritty details of 1990s San Francisco. This delivers the goods." —Publishers Weekly

"Girls Girls Girls is girly indeed, in the best way, as well as queer and young and retro and joyous and fraught and heartbreaking and hopeful, also in the best way. Shoshana von Blanckensee’s debut is a moving coming-of-age romp about friends, families and forgiveness, the endless ways they overlap, and all of their many wonderful, difficult, beautiful complications." —Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of One Two Three

"Shoshana von Blanckensee has crafted a stunning debut full of heartache and hope. I loved this book." —Michelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up

"A grip­ping debut . . . Girls Girls Girls is a nos­tal­gic romp through the ​'90s San Fran­cis­co les­bian scene. . . . offer[ing] sen­si­tive por­tray­als of rela­tion­ships among women with moments that are joy­ful, uncom­fort­able, dif­fi­cult, hurt­ful, and resplen­dent in pro­por­tion­ate measures." —Jewish Book Council