“The perfect book to read with your friends.” — Bustle  “ The debut novel of the season, The Other's Gold reads like an origin story for the women of Big Little Lies . ”  — Elle An insightful and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women across life-defining turning points Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorn College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable. The leafy green campus they move through together, the idyllic window seat they share in their suite, and the passion and ferocity that school and independence awakens in them ignites an all-encompassing love with one another. But they soon find their bonds--forged in joy, and fused by fear--must weather threats that originate from beyond the dark forests of their childhoods, and come at them from institutions, from one another, and ultimately, from within themselves. The Other's Gold follows the four friends as each makes a terrible mistake, moving from their wild college days to their more feral days as new parents. With one part devoted to each mistake--the Accident, the Accusation, the Kiss, and the Bite--this complex yet compulsively readable debut interrogates the way that growing up forces our friendships to evolve as the women discover what they and their loved ones are capable of, and capable of forgiving. A joyful, big-hearted book that perfectly evokes the bittersweet experience of falling in love with friendship, the experiences of Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret are at once achingly familiar and yet shine with a brilliance and depth all their own. A Real Simple “Five Books That Won’t Disappoint” A Bustle “28 New Books Out In August 2019 To Add To Your End-Of-Summer Reading List” A Refinery29 “The Books Of 2019 We Can't Wait To Read (So Far)” A Mindbodygreen “5 Books You Won't Be Able To Put Down This August” A Hello Giggles “The 10 Best New Books to Read in August” A Get Literary “Favorite New August 2019 Fiction” An InStyle “14 Books to Read This August” A New York Post “Best Books of the Week” A  Vogue  “10 New Books to Read This Summer” An Elle “The 16 Best Books of 2019 (So Far)” A Marie Claire “The Best Fiction Books by Women This Year” A Good Housekeeping “50 Best Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List” “Elizabeth Ames’s addictive debut, The Other’s Gold , is in some ways a conventional book, a campus novel, centered on the friendship of four women who fall into categories that seem a bit too predictable (the pretty one, the sporty one, etc.). But, just as collegiate first impressions can mutate and evolve, the book—along with its characters—grows increasingly complex, charting the way that the bonds forged in those heady moments when people are permitted to reinvent themselves can become the defining ties of adult life. . . . This novel will resonate with anyone who guards an inner circle forged in dorm rooms and dining halls, but it is also, in the end, more than that.” —Vogue “[An] impressive debut. . . . Ames’s well-drawn characters and startling prose will linger with you.” — Real Simple “Your new favorite campus novel . . . Reading  The Other’s Gold  tends to evoke a flood of feeling, from educational nostalgia to the reminder of how fleeting that period of time in which you are truly entrenched in the details of your friends’ lives really is. . . . At the brink of publication, and with literary heavyweights on her side, Elizabeth Ames is likely staring down a writing career that will be  anything  but a mistake.” —Entertainment Weekly “[ The Other’s Gold  is] an ode to the turmoil and joy of female friendship, and the perfect book to read with your friends.” — Bustle “ The Other’s Gold is as beautifully written and epic in scope as A Little Life , but featuring women characters.” —Refinery29 “In this wonderful book about the complexities of female friendship, we meet Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret as they begin college. . . . By the end of the book, you’ll feel like this is your own group of friends—and you’ll be just as emotionally invested.” —Mindbodygreen   “ The Other’s Gold is a beautiful, relatable, and bittersweet read that examines the strength of female friendships as they evolve.” —Hello Giggles “This book is unexpectedly charming in its portrayal of four women who meet in college and hold on tightly to their friendship through adulthood. The structure is whip-smart: The book is told chronologically, but split into four parts, one for each woman's greatest mistake. And the characters grow increasingly three-dimensional—sometimes in shocking ways—with every chapter.” —Marie Claire “Elizabeth Ames’s debut explores the changing bonds of four college friends as the mistakes they make later in life threaten to either deteriorate or strengthen their relationship.” —InStyle “Four friends meet their freshman year of college,