Girls They Write Songs About'The instant feminist classic our generation has been waiting for' Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can't Sleep What happens when growing up means growing apart? 1997. New York. Earnest, bookish Rose. Brash, extrovert Charlotte. When they moved to New York in the late nineties, coffee cost less than a dollar and you could still smoke in bars. You could stay up drinking all night, sat in vinyl booths patched up with duct tape. Everyone has their own New