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Boy Meets Girl

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Boy Meets Girl charts a complex friendship spanning twenty-five years between Sammy Browne, young and idealistic, and Ben Eisenberg, older and wealthy. Told through alternating timelines and perspectives, the novel explores their evolving relationship—from youthful flirtation and unrequited love to deep friendship, estrangement, and eventual reunion. Set against major sociopolitical events from the Clinton era to the Trump presidency, the story interweaves personal hopes and realities.
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Told in two alternating timelines, this novel follows a friendship over twenty-five years.

Boy Meets Girl is the story of a twenty-five-year friendship between Sammy Browne (young, idealistic, and broke) and Ben Eisenberg (older, jaded, and almost unimaginably rich)—two characters drawn together, and ultimately torn apart, by their differences.

This novel tells the story of their relationship over the decades—from youthful flirtation to unrequited love, to long-term friendship that flourishes in middle age, to estrangement and then reunion. The novel unfolds in alternating chapters, toggling back and forth between Ben and Sammy as young people and in middle age, showing everything the characters hoped to become and how things turned out for them.

Boy Meets Girl unfolds against the political and social backdrop of the last three decades, with Bill Clinton’s election, the events of September 11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even the Trump era providing context and contrast for the personal stories of the main characters.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781936970742

Publisher: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 474g

Pages: 492

About the Author

Christie Hodgen is the author of three books of fiction: Elegies for the Brokenhearted, A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw, and Hello, I Must Be Going. She is professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the editor of New Letters magazine.

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