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2026: A pivotal summer shatters the delicate balance between three best friends
Girls Girl
What you need to know before your trail
Fifteen-year-old Mina’s whole world is her two best friends, but after an unexpected kiss, the established dynamics of their trio quickly unravel. Everything that was once shared openly, from clothes to secrets, now feels impossibly fragile. Loyalties shift and tensions simmer across the long days of this pivotal summer.
Looking back, an adult Mina traces the rituals of girlhood and how that summer changed who she was and would change the way the world could be.
Travel Guide
Doan, Ohio – Fictional
Doan is described in the book as an affluent, residential neighbourhood located in the “upper right-hand corner of Ohio”
“Doan, our neighborhood in the upper right-hand corner of Ohio, was residential, majority populated by white people, the neighbors all apparently heterosexual. Massive hundred-year-old trees lined its streets, announcing stable affluence.”
The setting is possibly modelled after the suburbs of Cleveland, where the author, Sonia Feldman, lives and writes. She describes a sun-drenched, suburban Midwestern summer: “July cleared its throat” Phrases like this help to romanticize and elevate the typical Ohio summer experience
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Girls Girl
Destination/location: Ohio (Fictional Doan) Author/guide: Sonia Feldman Departure Time: 2026
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