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In the second season of Parks and Recreation (back in 2010), Leslie Khope founded and named that quote we all needed: the Galentine's Day . This conjunction of girls and Valentine's Day It is officially celebrated on February 13 and consists of doing everything that makes us enjoy. “ It's about women celebrating women. Like the Lilith Fair festival, but without the angst. And with frittatas ”, summarizes the character of the series played by amy poehler.
the time we spent with friends It should not be so small that we need one day a year to formalize it, but it should be remembered that friendship is as (or more) important than romantic relationships. In any case, the affections are no longer of a single type and, the more we have, the better we will feel. Sorority, a word that has been part of the RAE dictionary since 2018 , confirms that the sisterhood between women, which is based on mutual support, is a reality that more and more people demand.
So, regardless of whether you decide to celebrate this day with your friends (or any other), or go out to eat, dance, or prepare mimosas like Rosalía and Kylie Jenner , we propose a cultural plan. Because fiction and, in this case, books They are also a good way to commemorate the friendship between women.
Here the eight references that you can give (or give yourself) this or any day because the Galentine's Day It is not a day, it is a vital mood.
Planet
Friends. Ladies celebrating ladies
friendsby Ana Jaren
This Sevillian illustrator finds in friendship the solution to that loneliness we feel when we arrive in a new city. Luckily, the protagonist of this story meets a girl with whom she will soon have many coffees, together they will experience shared hangovers and make unexpected trips. And all with references to sex in new york either Girls , two generational series where friends matter even more than boyfriends.
Alfaguara
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
little womenby Louisa May Alcott
Now what Greta Gerwig has adapted it again in a millennial key, it is the best time to rescue the story of these sisters (and friends) who live in the United States of the 19th century. “ When I reread it as an adult, in my thirties, I was struck by how modern it was. when talking about topics such as belonging, art and ambition, money and women”, acknowledged the filmmaker and actress in an interview she gave to El Periódico de Catalunya. And what better than to see the film and see if everything was as we had imagined or if Gerwig understood it in another way?
Troy Horse
There Was a Party, by Marina L. Riudoms
there was a party, by Marina L. Riudoms
The multidisciplinary Marina L. Riudoms she (besides writing, translating and editing) she has debuted with a novel where friends and music take over each of the pages of this permanent party, which begins with the journey of four 18-year-old girls flying to Naples . In this new landscape, they will live moments of doubts, uncertainties and unease; always present the fact that they travel alone, with all that that implies: the lost innocence.
Planet
Cursed Bodies, by Lucía Baskaran
cursed bodiesby Lucia Baskaran
After depart , the Basque writer has given life to Alicia, a twenty-year-old who has been left (almost) a widow and who does not experience mourning as she would expect. Fortunately, that best friend whom she had neglected returns to her life to welcome her and offer her new emotions , already forgotten. It will be then when she reinterprets those certainties that until that moment she had considered immutable.
Candaya
Mandible, by Mónica Ojeda
Jawby Monica Ojeda
its protagonist, a rich teenager who goes to an Opus Dei school (and that reminds us of the protagonists of Mean Girls in Ecuadorian code) meets with her friends to test her limits and write horror stories while her mothers play paddle tennis and drink cocktails . In a world where men hardly exist or are only marginally visible, these girls' existential angst spirals out of control when a new teacher shows up; a woman with her own demons of hers.
Random House Literature
Conversations Between Friends by Sally Rooney
conversations between friendsSally Rooney
Two friends, university students and non-conformists, meet a thirty-year-old writer and her husband, and a kind of ménage à quatre will be established between them. In her debut novel, Rooney recreates the atmosphere of bohemian bourgeois in Ireland , which on this occasion flirts with adolescent precariousness and the search for references, and vice versa.
Alpha Decay
GIRL, BOY, GIRL: How I Became JT Leroy
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroyby Savannah Knoop
In 2006, a New York Times reporter found out that JT Leroy was actually a woman named Savannah Knoop. For years, her aunt Laura Albert imagined a character wearing sunglasses and a blonde wig that everyone wanted to date. The fraud reached figures such as Winona Ryder, Gus Van Sant either Courtney Love , who were proudly photographed next to the alleged writer.
In 2008, Knoop recounted all that in a kind of temporary autobiography that she later translated into Spanish. Alpha Decay . In it, the young woman recalls her relationship with Asian Argentinian , until everything came to light.
Kristen Stewart Y Laura Dern star in its 2018 film adaptation.
Reservoir Books
The Adult by Gillian Flynn
the adultby Gillian Flynn
This story by the American author, with beautiful illustrations by Carmen Segovia , tells the story of a woman who makes a living as a clairvoyant, until she meets a family that lives in a Victorian mansion known as Carterhook Manor. Susan Burke is the matriarch and she lives in fear thinking that some evil spirit has settled in your house . A story with classic overtones, in which Flynn's voice stands out above everything and everyone.