The award-winning cousins beautifully capture the magic and misery of the Big Apple through the tumultuous experiences of three young women
t’s 2009 and at Newark airport in New Jersey, a young woman called Zoe, her hair cut newly and severely short, waits for her old school friend Dani, with whom she’s about to spend a weekend in, a city neither of them has ever visited before. At home in Canada, both are first-year university students. But they’re studying in different places and they miss each other; this is a longed-for chance to catch up, as well as to play the tourist.
But the reader knows very well what lies ahead, for while two’s company, three is almost always a crowd – and never more so than on holiday. Fiona, with her sass, her opinions , and her taste for booze and weed, looks like trouble. Sure enough, it isn’t long before she’s flirting with Zoe, whispering poison about Dani and throwing up in the back of a yellow cab.