A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceA Must-Read at People, Entertainment Weekly, Nylon, and LitHub“Stylish, reckless . . . Glittering.” —Molly Young, The New York TimesA power ballad to female friendship, Girls They Write Songs About is a thrumming, searching novel about the bonds that shape us more than any love affair.We moved to New York to want undisturbed and uncheckedAnd what did we want?New York, 1997. As the city’s gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two aspiring writers meet at a music magazine. Rose—brash and self-possessed—is a staff writer. Charlotte—hesitant, bookish—is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambitionSoon they’re inseparable, falling into the kind of friendship that makes every day an adventure, and makes you believe that you will, of course, achieve extraordinary things.Together, Charlotte and Rose find love and