The word receptacle has appeared in 17 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on June 26 in the book review “In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart” by Molly Young:
Bauer’s novel begins as an ode to the alchemy that occurs when two strangers find their sensibilities and tastes to be miraculously congruent. Who needs a romantic partner when you have a best friend? Who needs a diary when you have a living, breathing receptacle for every opinion, daydream, fantasy, guilty confession and scrap of gossip tumbling around in your head?
But the reader knows this epic friendship will end; the gloomy forecast is announced on Page 1. “We thought that if we worked hard enough we would one day, and on time, stand exactly where we hoped,” observes Charlotte, the book’s narrator. “But we were neither selfish enough nor selfless enough to become heroines. And even though she and I are no longer speaking, it makes me happy to think and write of that we.”
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