'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
