![]() ![]() Knowing what happens means saying good-bye to what could have happened, to all of the possibilities you had concocted for all of the girls you once loved. Reboots provide all of that information, but it comes at a price. Did Elizabeth Wakefield win a Pulitzer? Is Tibby a filmmaker? Exactly how hot did Brian eventually get? It’s exactly what any devoted reader always thought she wanted: a chance to see what became of the character she identified with most. Earlier this spring the twins of “ Sweet Valley High” reappeared, suddenly 27, with jobs and fiances and quarter-life crises. There’s been a lot of revisiting in teen culture recently. ![]() ![]() It revisits Bee, Tibby, Carmen and Lena as they are about to turn 30. “Everlasting” is sisterhood meant for adult readers. That book was released in 2007, but in Pantsland, these events happened 10 years ago. Longtime readers will remember why: The pants were lost in Greece near the end of the fourth book, and the girls, who originally shared legwear custody, realized that they didn’t need mystical denim to bind them together. But “Sisterhood Everlasting” is entirely pants-free. The four Bethesda teens who comprised Ann Brashares’s four-book “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” series - a modern fairytale about a magical pair of jeans that made everyone’s butt look good - have returned for a fifth installment. Is that statement a metaphor? A riddle? A poor Spanglish re-translation of “the emperor has no clothes?” "Sisterhood Everlasting: A Novel" by Ann Brashares (Random House) ![]()
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