Girls Girls Girls

By: Shoshana von Blanckensee

Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch, Shoshana von Blanckensee

Finalist for the 2026 LAMBDA Literary Award
Finalist for the 2025 CALIBA Golden Poppy Award

"Jam-packed with queer angst and queer joy . . . and a truly incredible amount of heart. I devoured this novel." —Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One

"A teary-eyed love letter to the San Francisco that remains and to its establishments that are long-gone. But above all [Girls Girls Girls] tenderly tells the story of a vulnerable young queer person in an unfamiliar place, just trying to create a new version of home." —San Francisco Chronicle

It’s the summer of ’96 and secret girlfriends Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, finally free from the stifling demands of Hannah’s devout Orthodox Jewish mother. In San Francisco, they can be a real couple, out in the open, around other queer people.

But when the financial strains of West Coast living push the girls to start stripping at the Chez Paree, Hannah feels trapped. Until she meets Chris, an older butch lesbian, who is immediately taken with her. Desperate to stay in San Francisco and away from the leering men at the club, Hannah proposes an escort arrangement.

As Hannah falls deeper into Chris’s world, and Sam starts to meet new queer friends, a rift forms between them. Without Sam, who is Hannah? And what does San Francisco mean to Hannah alone? An achingly tender and resonant story of survival, first love, and growing up queer in the '90s, Girls Girls Girls is a piercing exploration of the choices we make in the thrilling and often confounding search for ourselves and home.

such a great story

Very realistic from a lesbian prospective. I live how she came out and her adventures and dark truths!

I LOVE THIS BOOK

If you are a queer Jewish woman, I beg you to read this book. Hannah and her Bubbe are such deeply loveable characters. I felt seen and healed by this story.

I will listen to this again and again.

I love this so much. I listen to it virtually in one day best fictional book. I’ve read in a while. I loved it to pieces well written, and kept me wanting more.

Amazing immersive Story!

I absolutely adored this book from the first sentence! Masterful storytelling, characters and portrayal of the city in the 90s. The main character had an amazing, courageous coming of age voyage and I was right there with her. I didn’t want it to end!