The girls of Tink, Inc. Are: Merissa ("the perfect one"), Nadia ("the slut"), and, until last summer, Tink.
This year, their last year together, Merissa and Nadia need Tink more than they ever did before. Their secrets are toxic, threatening to unravel their friendship—and themselves. Tink had a secret, too, a big one, but no one knows what it was.
And now she's gone.
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Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
The girls of Tink, Inc. Are: Merissa ("the perfect one"), Nadia ("the slut"), and, until last summer, Tink.
This year, their last year together, Merissa and Nadia need Tink more than they ever did before. Their secrets are toxic, threatening to unravel their friendship—and themselves. Tink had a secret, too, a big one, but no one knows what it was.
The girls of Tink, Inc. Are: Merissa ("the perfect one"), Nadia ("the slut"), and, until last summer, Tink.
This year, their last year together, Merissa and Nadia need Tink more than they ever did before. Their secrets are toxic, threatening to unravel their friendship—and themselves. Tink had a secret, too, a big one, but no one knows what it was.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Hometown:
Princeton, New Jersey
Date of Birth:
June 16, 1938
Place of Birth:
Lockport, New York
Education:
B.A., Syracuse University, 1960; M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1961
What People are Saying About This
Laurie Halse Anderson
An Amazon Best Book of the Month“The painful honesty of this book will crack open your heart. Joyce Carol Oates takes us from the howling pain of lonely adolescence to the comfort and healing brought about by a friendship strong enough to transcend death.”
