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Girls of 714 Coming of Age in 1980's New York
Paperback
Series: New York Coming of Age, Book 1
Publisher: Maeve After Dark
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the autumn of 1984, within the hallowed, repressive halls of an Upper East Side Catholic women's college, two freshmen are assigned as roommates. Clare Hanlon, a devout art history student from the Kansas plains, arrives with her sensible skirts and quiet dreams. Maeve O'Shea, a sharp-tongued, street-smart Irish Catholic from the Bronx, brings a crucifix for her wall and a rebellion in her heart. From the moment they meet in Room 714 of Spellman Hall, their connection is immediate and volatile, a collision of worlds that sparks a dangerous, intoxicating fire.
Girls of 714 is an unflinching, passionate coming-of-age story set against the gritty, vibrant backdrop of 1980s New York City. It follows Clare and Maeve as they navigate the fraught journey from strangers to secret lovers, forging a bond that defies the rigid expectations of their church, their families, and a society on the brink of the AIDS crisis.
Their story begins with a tense, charged friendship, built on shared loneliness and a mutual recognition of damage from their conservative upbringings. A tour of the city's seedy underbelly becomes a catalyst, awakening desires they scarcely have names for. Their first tender, exploratory kisses in the dark lead to a daring, solemn pact: to gift their virginity not to the boys they're expected to date, but to each other, in the legendary, bohemian sanctuary of the Chelsea Hotel.
But their hard-won private paradise is under constant siege. To maintain their secret in a world that would condemn them, they construct an elaborate façade, dating harmless beard boyfriends while their true intimacy deepens in the shadows of their dorm room. They discover that their shared history of childhood discipline has forged a unique language of trust and power between them-a consensual dynamic of punishment and profound connection that becomes the bedrock of their relationship, a way
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