One of Debutiful's Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2025
One of LGBTQ Reads's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025
"We’re in for a fun-as-hell ride with this one. It’s raw and authentic, nailing what it’s like to be weird in high school." —Debutiful
"Girls Girls Girls floored me—the nostalgic angst and agony of it, the heat and beauty and tenderness. Shoshana von Blanckensee puts it all on the page so viscerally: lust, hunger, death, sex, grief, love and every other thing a human body is and does. It's completely extraordinary." —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and We All Want Impossible Things
"An immersive and emotional debut teeming with heart, angst, love, and self-discovery. This is a queer, touching, and charming book that makes you feel at home in 1990s San Francisco through the eyes of a messy and endearing lesbian." —Emily Austin, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and We Could Be Rats
"A propulsive and compulsively readable debut! Girls Girls Girls is jam-packed with queer angst and queer joy, filled with a memorable cast of characters and a truly incredible amount of heart. I devoured this novel." —Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
"Girls Girls Girls is girly indeed, in the best way, as well as queer and young and retro and joyous and fraught and heartbreaking and hopeful, also in the best way. Shoshana von Blanckensee’s debut is a moving coming-of-age romp about friends, families, and forgiveness, the endless ways they overlap, and all of their many wonderful, difficult, beautiful complications." —Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of One Two Three
"Finally, a novel about being queer, Jewish, and obsessed with your grandmother. Shoshana von Blanckensee’s Girls Girls Girls is a tender and electric coming-of-age story. Come for the shenanigans, stay for the textured portrait of grief, desire, and the making and remaking of what it means to be family." —Ruth Madievsky, bestselling and award-winning author of All-Night Pharmacy
“Girls Girls Girls is the rare many-layered coming-of-age novel that addresses lust, confusion, longing, and grief in equal measure. I wanted to live inside Shoshana von Blanckensee’s vivid evocation of 1990s San Francisco queer community long after I finished reading—and I can't remember the last time I had such a big crush on a fictional character." —Amy Shearn, award-winning author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn and Animal Instinct
"Girls Girls Girls is a gorgeous, tender, and hopeful coming-of-age novel. von Blanckensee writes with wisdom and insight about self-discovery, first loves, queer community in 90s San Francisco, what it means to carve out a life for yourself, and ultimately, what and who makes a home. It’s a road trip novel in the literal and metaphorical sense, a love letter to queerness, youth, and the courage it takes to leave so that one day you may return. Girls Girls Girls is a triumph, a big beating heart of a book, full of hard-fought victories. I loved every second of it." —Marisa Crane, author of A Sharp Endless Need
"Shoshana von Blanckensee has crafted a stunning debut full of heartache and hope. I loved this book." —Michelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up
"Shoshana von Blanckensee’s first novel is luminous, insightful, tender, and hot." —Andrea Lawlor, recipient of the 2020 Whiting Award for Fiction
