Better with friends /
Diede, Kimberly,
Better with friends / Kimberly Diede. - ii, 393 pages ; 22 cm - The kaleidoscope girls ; 1 .
Includes reading guide.
Jackie Turner has never felt so invisible. As a top performer, the forty-eight-year-old is shocked when she's passed over for a promotion at work. It's a bitter pill, but she vows to keep her disappointment to herself as she travels back home to Minnesota for her thirty-year high school reunion. She's reconnecting with her oldest and dearest friends that go back to summer camp, when the five young girls bonded over butterflies, a troubling accusation, and a simple craft project. They dubbed themselves the Kaleidoscope Girls, and not even their turbulent high school years could tear them apart. They promised to stay close, but life can thwart even the best of intentions. Decades later, Jackie realizes she needs her lifelong friends now more than ever. Her career feels stale, her nest is empty, and her father is fighting a battle he can't win. She needs a fresh start, and together with the rest of the Kaleidoscope Girls, Jackie will hit the road and experience what it feels like to have fun again.-- From back cover.
9781735134369 1735134368
Female friendship--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
Class reunions--Fiction.
Minnesota--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Better with friends / Kimberly Diede. - ii, 393 pages ; 22 cm - The kaleidoscope girls ; 1 .
Includes reading guide.
Jackie Turner has never felt so invisible. As a top performer, the forty-eight-year-old is shocked when she's passed over for a promotion at work. It's a bitter pill, but she vows to keep her disappointment to herself as she travels back home to Minnesota for her thirty-year high school reunion. She's reconnecting with her oldest and dearest friends that go back to summer camp, when the five young girls bonded over butterflies, a troubling accusation, and a simple craft project. They dubbed themselves the Kaleidoscope Girls, and not even their turbulent high school years could tear them apart. They promised to stay close, but life can thwart even the best of intentions. Decades later, Jackie realizes she needs her lifelong friends now more than ever. Her career feels stale, her nest is empty, and her father is fighting a battle he can't win. She needs a fresh start, and together with the rest of the Kaleidoscope Girls, Jackie will hit the road and experience what it feels like to have fun again.-- From back cover.
9781735134369 1735134368
Female friendship--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
Class reunions--Fiction.
Minnesota--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.