The old friends' rock-solid connection is stretched to its limit as each is swept into her role in the tragedy, Riley as conduit for the voice of the bereaved family and one of the most visible members of the city's Black community, Jen isolated among her husband's racist relatives and terrified by Kevin's increasingly disastrous prospects.
But Jen's husband, Kevin, is a Philadelphia police officer, and he and his partner have just shot a 14-year-old Black boy while pursuing a suspect with a completely different description. Riley is in line to be the lead anchor at the local TV station, and Jen has finally, after many tries and a loan from Riley for one last IVF procedure, gotten pregnant. Riley and Jen have been besties since girlhood, and as this debut novel from Pride and Piazza opens, they are both realizing their dreams. Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.The longtime friendship between a Black newscaster and a White woman married to a cop is tested by a tragedy. Previous selections have included Kevin Kwan’s Sex and Vanity and Liz Moore’s Long Bright River. This month marks the second anniversary of the GMA book club. Piazza reacted to the book’s selection on Instagram, writing, “So this morning we got to be interviewed by the absolutely incredible who blew us away with her thoughtful questions and commentary about our book!!! Our book! We still can’t believe that our book is an pick and that we get to share it with so many of you.” “As you can imagine, there’s lots to think about and there’s lots to talk about with your book club,” Pride told GMA viewers. A reviewer for Kirkus wrote, presciently, “With its timely premise, clear-cut messages, and appealing female characters, this novel is bound for book-club glory.” Pride and Piazza’s novel, published Tuesday by Atria, follows two longtime friends whose lives are thrown into disarray when one of their husbands, a Philadelphia police officer, shoots an unarmed Black teenager.
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza’s We Are Not Like Them is the newest pick for the Good Morning America book club.ĭeborah Roberts of ABC News revealed the selection on the morning show, calling the novel “a powerful and provocative story about race, friendship, forgiveness and justice.”
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