<p>Praise for THE FALSE FRIEND <br> One of the most emotionally rich novels I've read this year...Intellectually rigorous, psychologically astute and beautifully written, The False Friend provides the truest accounting of the way memory can be a burden. <br>-- Jonathan Messinger for TimeOut Chicago <br> The False Friend is a riveting read, both compelling and richly satisfying. <br>--Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic <br> Not since Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye have we seen such a precise and haunting portrayal of girl bullying. With uncanny pitch and tenderness, Goldberg captures both the passion of female friendship and its most savage rite of passage. Both girls and adults will find solace in this gem of a novel. <br>--Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls <br> There are moments when I fear that my entire personality was formed (and malformed) in middle school. We all learned the hard way that there is nothi