![]() They're both trying to do this terribly difficult thing of being a famous dancer - of being a great dancer. ![]() Joan and Elaine have a fascinating friendship because as it says at one point in the novel, they're not really confidants. We don't usually see as much, I think, the other side of it - the darker side, the competitive cutting side. ![]() I think female friendship is something that we usually see a kind of intense romantic side of it. On how a book centered around women can have universal resonance It was interesting to be reminded of how in New York City at that time ballerinas were a kind of disco royalty. And they're in New York going to parties and smoking. ![]() Her best friend knows that it's happening to her. What we know right away is that she's pregnant. But we don't really know the personal cost of that right away. ![]()
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