# The Friends

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- Book: [The Friends](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosa-guy/the-friends) ([The Friends.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosa-guy/the-friends.md))
- Authors: [Rosa Guy](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosa-guy)
- Publisher: laurel_leaf
- ISBN: 978-04-4022-667-3
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1995-12-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship. Phyllisia Cathy—She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy....