Storylines involving Eric, Brian and Effie all resolve themselves to varying degrees of completion. Lena predictably thinks of Kostos, who is not the only secondary character to drop in from the earlier books. Much of “Sisterhood Everlasting” is dedicated to exploring how each character responds to the sad event.īee predictably goes wandering. The girls feel things deeply and are devoted to one another in a way that is aspirational if not always realistic. Then they all arrive, toting Pop-Tarts and other supplies necessary for any “Sisterhood” reunion.Īs series about girl gangs go - the Baby-sitters, the Ya-Yas - the Pantshood has always been touching. Tibby long ago moved to Australia and lost touch with everyone, until the opening of the book when she suggests they all meet on the Greek island of Santorini. Lena’s an art teacher in Rhode Island Carmen is a New York actress Bee ethereally floats through San Francisco. In “Sisterhood Everlasting,” the girls (women!) are physically far-flung but still emotionally tight. In the place of Knowing, they are just twenty-somethings with grown-up problems and cruddy temp jobs. In this place of Not Knowing, the characters remain bright with potential, teenagers whose teenage problems are cozy retreats for adult readers. Knowing what happens means saying good-bye to what could have happened, to all of the possibilities you had concocted for all of the girls you once loved. Reboots provide all of that information, but it comes at a price. Did Elizabeth Wakefield win a Pulitzer? Is Tibby a filmmaker? Exactly how hot did Brian eventually get? It’s exactly what any devoted reader always thought she wanted: a chance to see what became of the character she identified with most. Earlier this spring the twins of “ Sweet Valley High” reappeared, suddenly 27, with jobs and fiances and quarter-life crises. There’s been a lot of revisiting in teen culture recently. It revisits Bee, Tibby, Carmen and Lena as they are about to turn 30.
“Everlasting” is sisterhood meant for adult readers. That book was released in 2007, but in Pantsland, these events happened 10 years ago. Longtime readers will remember why: The pants were lost in Greece near the end of the fourth book, and the girls, who originally shared legwear custody, realized that they didn’t need mystical denim to bind them together. But “Sisterhood Everlasting” is entirely pants-free.
The four Bethesda teens who comprised Ann Brashares’s four-book “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” series - a modern fairytale about a magical pair of jeans that made everyone’s butt look good - have returned for a fifth installment.
Is that statement a metaphor? A riddle? A poor Spanglish re-translation of “the emperor has no clothes?” "Sisterhood Everlasting: A Novel" by Ann Brashares (Random House)
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