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Sisterhood Everlasting
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Book 5

Sisterhood Everlasting (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Ann Brashares (Author) (edit contributors)

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Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . ten years later   From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting... read more

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Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . ten years later. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . ten years later. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness. Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected. As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.

Characters edit see section history

  • Tibby Rollins: We discover pretty early on in the book that Tibby has been distant both physically and emotionally from the sisterhood for the past 2 years. She has been living in Australia with her long-time boyfriend, Brian, but has not been particularly good about responding to emails and never gives her friends any calls. The other 3 are pleasantly surprised when she flies them out to Greece for a reunion.
  • Lena Kaligaris: Lena has always been the quiet, beautiful introvert and in the 5th book we see not much has changed. Unfortunately for Lena, her shyness has gotten in the way of her living her life and she lives alone in Rhode Island with many regrets and dreams of the boy she loved as a teenager, Kostos.
  • Carmen Lowell: Out of the 4 best friends, she is the one who seems to be the most changed. She is a moderately successful actress living in New York with her fiancee. She has lost a lot of weight, altered her appearance to get more roles and is attached to her IPhone.
  • Bridget Vreeland: Restless and constantly moving from place to place, house to house, seeminly never finding a home. She is beautiful and knows it, but she doesn't really seem to care.
  • Brian: Lives with Tibby in Australia, where he manages a software company. Loves Tibby
  • Bailey: The name of one of Tibby's friend's who died in book 1, and a new character in this story has her name.
  • Kostos Dounas: Though he no longer sees Lena, he comforts her when tragedy strikes. He is now rich and famous, lives in London and from the part of Greece that Lena's grandparents were from.
  • Eric: Lives with Bridget in San Francisco, where he works for a law firm. Was the guy she met in the very first book at soccer camp in Baja, New Mexico. Loves Bridget.
  • Mr. Jones: Carmen's fiancé, who works in show business. He is a producer. Bald. Carmen's friends think he's a jerk.
  • Effie Kaligaris: Lena's younger sister, who is Lena's opposite in every way. She's a star journalist, and has a tumultuous relationship with Lena.
  • Alice Rollins: Tibby's mother.
  • Clara: A baby that Carmen met on the train. Daughter of Roberto and sister of Paolo.
  • Pablo: A child that Carmen met on the train. Son of Roberto and brother of Clara. She finds him annoying at first but then like falls in love with him.
  • Roberto: A man Carmen meets on the train, who helps her realize her true destiny.
  • Lydia: Carmen's step-mom. Who dies of cancer.
  • Paul: Carmen's step-brother.
  • Krista: Carmen's step-sister.
  • Ryan: Carmen's little brother.
  • Rita: Add a description of this character.
  • Lenny
  • Ari
  • Perry
  • Mrs. Jones
  • Aleta
  • Bapi
  • Anna
  • Teresa
  • Lee
  • Bee
  • Grantley Arden
  • Greta
  • Markos
  • Mr. Moyo
  • Bridget "Bee" Vreeland: The token blonde of the group. Four books ago she was established as the reckless one. The soccer-playing, tall, restless, impulsive one who couldn't sit still. We find her in this 5th book - 10 years later - not having evolved much. She is still with her long-time boyfriend, Eric, but she hasn't married him, she can't stay living in the same place for very long and she hasn't really figured out what she wants to do with her life.
  • Drew
  • Eudoxia
  • Katherine
  • Marly
  • Maria Cantos
  • Valia
  • Nicky
  • Tabitha
  • Travis
  • David
  • Tommy
  • Harriet
  • Violet
  • Daisy
  • Sheila
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  • “She'd thought her hair would fade a bit as she got older, but it hadn't. It was her mother's hair, her grandmother's hair, her bittersweet birthright; she wouldn't get rid of it that easily.”
    (about Bridget)
  • “...she began questioning everything she had done. She tried to identify the moment when she'd done the worst wrong. It often happened without clear warning.”
  • “She didn't know what she'd find where she was going. She didn't even know what she was looking for. It was a long way to go for nothing.”
    (about Bridget)
  • “Last time she had worn fear. And this time she was crazy.”
    (about Lena)
  • “Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
    Tibby (in a letter to Lena)
  • “Bridget didn't suffer from those ailments that picked at you over a lifetime, like allergies or acne, dandruff or a sore back, floaters in your eyes or lust for food that made you fat. She went straight to the hard-core stuff, the rough waves in the gene pool, like the depression so severe it had taken her mother's life. Sometimes she felt the outside of her have a very incomplete account of the inside of her.”
    (about Bridget)
  • “Bridget lay awake, but she wasn't restless. There weren't as many places to go as there were thoughts to think.”
    (About Bridget)
  • “I had seen birth and death, but had thought they were different.”
    T.S. Elliot
  • “...and Lena drew in the familiar stimuli: Bridget's peppermint shampoo, the delicate sponge-cake texture of her skin against Lena's cheek, Carmen's grapefruit-scented hair junk and sticky lips. The smells on them were deeper, the colors brighter, than on other people.”
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  • “You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this.… Ready?” “Ready.” “ ‘At least I tried.’ ”
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  • “You just have to let people love you in the way they can,”
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  • She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she’d forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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  •              —Winston Churchill
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  • I’ll let you be in my dreams                         if I can be in yours.       —Bob Dylan
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  • It was probably good you couldn’t flip the love switch, because sometimes it was what you needed, even if you didn’t want it.
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  • The angels come to visit us,          and we only know them   when they are gone.     —George Eliot
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First Sentence edit see section history

Once upon a time there were four pregnant women who met in an aerobics gym.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue

Chapters 1-30

Epilogue

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 5 of 6 in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. (standard series)

Preceded by Forever in Blue.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ann Brashares (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 14, 2011
ISBN: 978-0385521222
Page Count: 369

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3602.R.385S57 2011
  • Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Contains some innapropriate language and relationships; nothing is very detailed though. I think that a young adult, especially if they read the first four books, would be able to handle this book.

Books That Influenced This Book edit see section history

   
  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
  • Girls in Pants
  • Forever in Blue

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