Following three friends working in New York City media, laurenmechling's new novel 'How Could She' looks at the way there's no set rules for friendship among women, yet they can collapse over anything
"There are no laws attached to friendship," Lauren Mechling told me. We had met to talk about her new novel, How Could She, a comedy of manners that takes place throughout a year in the life of three friends—Geraldine, Sunny, and Rachel—whose ties to one another unravel and form again, taking new shapes, and reflecting the transformations of their ever-shifting lives.
But it's precisely because friendships are so volatile that they are so precious; and then too, our friendships remind us not just of who we are, but of who we have been, something that's particularly important as we figure out where to go next—though the question of whether or not the friendship will come along is always a matter of debate.
Geraldine, Sunny, and Rachel met in their 20s, while working at a magazine in Toronto; they're now all in their late 30s, and find themselves at points in their lives that they recognize as being wildly different, though they would probably seem roughly similar to anyone peering at their friendship from some distance.
Throughout the novel, the women all have moments of openness with one another, but what's far more notable is how protective they are of themselves, and how clearly they see that any perceived weaknesses might lead to them losing a certain kind of stature in the eyes of their friends.
Perhaps what's most striking about How Could She is the way in which Mechling has written a novel that is simultaneously about connection and alienation, unspoken social codes and explicitly laid out rules of interpersonal engagement; she gets perfectly at the chaos of trying to maintain consistency in a world that isn't built for it, a world that laughs at you once you've gotten to where you think you're supposed to be.
In a video posted by a Twitter user named Kayla Marie, two women can be seen surrounded by several officers. It's hard to hear because of all of the background noise, but the women seem to be upset as they gather their belongings and ultimately walk away, escorted by the officers. Some members of the crowd booed as they were being escorted away.
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