This funny, honest, and realistic novel explores the most traumatic breakup many people ever go through-that of the friendship between childhood besties. In dual timelines, James (a girl with a boy's name) prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the past year and the dissolution of her relationship with Kat, while in alternating chapters, Kat is newly in love with her first girlfriend and feeling like her future is wide open. Over the course of senior year, Kat wants nothing more than James to continue to be her steady rock through multiple dramas, as James worries that everything she believes about love and her future is a lie when her high-school-sweethearts-parents announce they're getting a divorce. In their last year as friends, Kat and James grow apart while growing up. Filled with bittersweet emotions and plenty of romance, We Used to Be Friends will make you laugh and cry.
