{"product_id":"my-beautiful-friend-a-novel","title":"My Beautiful Friend: A Novel","description":"Everyone saw Caroline. Ashley saw what it cost her.\nWhat does it really mean to be beautiful?\nWhen Caroline and Ashley meet at fifteen, the answer seems obvious. Caroline is the girl everyone notices — striking, magnetic, impossible to look away from. Ashley is the one beside her: thoughtful, watchful, quietly aware that the world does not hand out rewards evenly.\nOver the decades that follow, their lives take very different shapes — marriage and its dangers and disappointments, work and reinvention, the heartbreaks that rearrange a person. Through all of it, their friendship remains the one place where each of them is fully seen.\nAnd slowly they come to understand what the world rarely admits: that beauty is not always the advantage it appears to be — and that the most beautiful life may be the one built quietly, out of courage, loyalty, and the hard-won strength to define your own worth.\nMy Beautiful Friend is a novel about friendship and identity, about being seen and being overlooked, and about the unspoken costs of the roles the world assigns us — especially for women.\nFor readers of Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Strout, and Anne Tyler — luminous, character-driven fiction about the lives women build, and the truths they reach along the way.\nSome friendships witness your life. The rarest ones make it possible to become who you were meant to be.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0GSFGWGSQ\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0GSFGWGSQ.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Barrowes, D. D.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44368951771197,"sku":"BVV.B0GSFGWGSQ.VG","price":9.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/B0GSFGWGSQ-0.jpg?v=1793828419","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/my-beautiful-friend-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}