reading Pretty Little Dirty - about the friend you loved - Who will run the frog hospital?

Celeste here like Sils there is the beautiful friend, also the better friend. kinder, generous.

She was, probably, the kindest person I have ever known. -p.137

I thought about what I would name my own daughter if I had one. duh-hay. that was an easy one. "Celeste," I said.
"You think so?" She smiled at me then in a way I hadn't seen yet, in a way that made me want to cry, she was so open, so much more than I would or could ever be, in a way that exuded love for me and for an unborn baby who could get named for her sake and for an idea, for the notion of continuation, for sincerity, for innocence. aw, it really was a look to beat the band. -p.124

Lisa here seems like narrator there (Berie - her name hardly matters) , who goes out into the world, uses her sharp wit ~for yrs I went around telling people mean things, like I'd been hit on the head; Sils stays in Horsehearts working for the post office, living among knick-knacks. ~what did it mean that she had stayed here, rooted, like a tree? although- in this neck of the woods, she was the neck of the woods. still.
(Lisa also like Lee in Prep ~? an edge and you don't get past it, you don't love her. the main thing for me about Lee is her name, Lee - , what girl named Lee am I remembering?)

PubWeekly/modified: an adult woman remembering an adolescent friendship...
---does that describe many novels? can I name others? ~Cat's Eye.
DallasMorningNews- as true a depiction of female adolescence as we've had since Atwood's Cat's Eye.

the other girl 'coming-of-age' novels I read around that time ~1995 - Politics&Prose - age 19: Mona Simpson, Anywhere but Here. Melanie Rae Thon, Iona Moon. (closest to me, along with Frog Hospital, I want to say closer because ~ a more pure artwork? because Thon did not keep publishing? because the title Iona Moon is a poem, but Frog Hospital is not ) ~Wheat... Winter Wheat