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“Commencement”
By J. Courtney Sullivan
Knopf, $24.95, 324 pages
It’s as if the characters in Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Prep” — well, the girls — graduated and landed in the same freshman dorm at Smith College. The wildly different foursome lurch through college, buoyed by their wits and their friendships. The intensity of these relationships have the capacity to sustain, and even overpower, these young women as they navigate into adulthood facing limitless options. Sullivan is a keen observer, with a wry sense of humor, and the book glides along like a “Sex and the City” episode — with more Gloria Steinem than Jimmy Choo.