While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by e-mail the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley. As their family lives become strained, they grow closer to their new boyfriends and to each other.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: friendship, fiction, family life, california, new jersey, dating (social customs), roommates