Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten.
Told from alternating perspectives, this “propulsive, deeply felt tale of race and friendship” ( People ) follows two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle, Fortune, and Book Riot Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Real Simple Previous selections have included Kevin Kwan’s Sex and Vanity and Liz Moore’s Long Bright River.
This month marks the second anniversary of the GMA book club. Piazza reacted to the book’s selection on Instagram, writing, “So this morning we got to be interviewed by the absolutely incredible who blew us away with her thoughtful questions and commentary about our book!!! Our book! We still can’t believe that our book is an pick and that we get to share it with so many of you.”
“As you can imagine, there’s lots to think about and there’s lots to talk about with your book club,” Pride told GMA viewers. A reviewer for Kirkus wrote, presciently, “With its timely premise, clear-cut messages, and appealing female characters, this novel is bound for book-club glory.” Pride and Piazza’s novel, published Tuesday by Atria, follows two longtime friends whose lives are thrown into disarray when one of their husbands, a Philadelphia police officer, shoots an unarmed Black teenager. Christine Pride and Jo Piazza’s We Are Not Like Them is the newest pick for the Good Morning America book club.ĭeborah Roberts of ABC News revealed the selection on the morning show, calling the novel “a powerful and provocative story about race, friendship, forgiveness and justice.”
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