Brittany Luce

I felt like, because, okay, this is the thing.

One thing I will say.

Very different going back and reading the book as a grown person after having seen the movie now so many times.

Because the movie is so much about sisterly love.

And the movie is purely about sisterly love.

But in the book, they have all these nasty things they say about each other behind their backs and think about each other all the time.

But I think aside from like the fat phobic comments that they make a lot about Gloria.

I think that a lot of what she's doing when she has them talk about each other behind their backs is it's like giving you, the reader, a peek into their truly private thoughts that they think that nobody else is hearing.

So I think that creates a sense of intimacy for me as the reader.

And then the other thing, too...

is I think that they're less charitable thoughts about each other are meant to connect with you as the reader.

But I think another reason why she did that is to allow you as the reader to have somebody say, exactly.

Like she's pissing me off.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And I think that is part of why she would have some of those mean asides too.

And also the reason why people come back to gossip and gossiping among women and friends more broadly as a point in stories of all kinds is because people do it.

So, one of the things that I think she does a pretty decent job in this book of sort of braiding in is trying to touch on a bajillion topics of the day.

And like the topics of the day of the 90s were like crack was something that came up.

And the MLK Day holiday is something that came up and trying to...