I THINK IT WAS A JUDY BLUME — ALEXANDRA NAUGHTON
/Story about the story I can’t remember the name of and don’t know if it actually exists about the girl whose parents get divorced and she spends weekends at the dad’s new apartment and in the apartment complex there is another girl around her age who also lives with a single parent and they become friends and spend Friday nights relaxing and washing their hair in the sink then wrapping it up in a towel in that special way that girls do and drawing a bubble bath in the bathtub and then getting in the tub together with the bubbles covering them and remembering reading this and thinking that sounds really relaxing and easy, a quiet respite with a friend who could just be a simulation of yourself that you've created in your mind to combat negative thoughts in the middle of a messy and unfamiliar situation.
Alexandra Naughton is a nice girl. She is the founder of Be About It Press and runs a literary performance series in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first novel, American Mary, was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016.
