The Myth of You & Me (2005)

by Leah Stewart

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Overall it was an okay book, I tired of Cameron and her whining at times and it did seem to repeat the same situations often. Nice twist at the end.
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lindap69 | Apr 5, 2013 |

Not a book I would have picked out necessarily, but I liked the main character and her perspective on things. Really does make you recall childhood "best friends" with fondness, those were friendships like no other and the author did a wonderful job of reminding us of that. (

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E.J | Apr 3, 2013 |

This wonderful book was my reward for slogging through two very un-wonderful books lately. I swear, it's all about the book karma. It was a quick read; I couldn't put it down & unfortunately, that made it pass far too quickly. I'm pretty sure this book is going to move into my rotation of "comfort reads", along with other favorites like [b:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn|14891|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |Betty Smith|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166668598s/14891.jpg|833257] and [b:Happy All the Time|164408|Happy All the Time|Laurie Colwin|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172335396s/164408.jpg|1088785]. (

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cat-ballou | Apr 2, 2013 |

You know, I really wish there are half stars, I would have done a 4.5. But it was the end that really got me. I felt most of the friendship between the main character and her best friend was a typical story, but it was really the end that got me. For some reason it just struck a chord with me. And then the last page just set it apart from all the usual stories. Loved it. (

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pam.enser | Apr 1, 2013 |

I have to agree with another reviewer, Ainsley, who said:

"This might've had a shot at a 4 until Cameron read Oliver's letter. Then it was allll over."

Exactly how I felt. (

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Oxford, Mississippi, USA

Clovis, New Mexico, USA

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Epigraph

And I'm left to wonder, What is this place? This room, this house, this life accountable to no one but myself. -- A. Manette Ansay, Sister

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For Matt, Elisa, and Carolyn

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"What if you had never met me?" Sonia says.

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Someone who found my album from the last trip I took with Sonia might look at that final photograph, of Sonia laughing in a beauty mask, and from that image extrapolate a happier tale. But when I looked at it I saw not the laughter but the mask. Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it. ~ pg 215

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When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.

When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half.

The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia’s friendship—as intense as any love affair—and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship. Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.

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Ten years after ending her friendship with Sonia, Cameron sets out to find her former friend and fulfill the final wish of her lover, delivering a mysterious package to Sonia that may help the women rebuild their friendship.

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