Long Island Girls
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Long Island Girls
Pre-order for $26.99
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Narrated by:
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Bailey Carr
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By:
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Gabrielle Korn
About this listen
An unforgettable novel of love and belonging, set in the indie music world of the early 2000s.
The only thing Susan loves more than music is Eliza, and both keep breaking her heart.
The first time Susan and Eliza meet, it's 2005, and Susan is barreling down the Long Island Expressway driving a group of friends to an indie rock show. Eliza is a surprise addition to the backseat, and she doesn't quite fit in; she's a little too pretty, and she doesn't know anything about music, but Susan is drawn to her anyway. Their flying sparks lead to combustion when Susan recognizes Eliza as the girl from a nude photo boys have been sending around. They part ways, and Susan assumes that’s the end of it. Susan goes off to college and onto a career in Brooklyn's indie music scene, where she navigates a toxic job at a small record label and learns hard lessons about who exactly has the privilege of making art under late-stage capitalism.
In 2015, in her twenties, Susan has a chance run-in with Eliza on a dating app, and they finally embark on a relationship. But Eliza is plagued by her traumatic past, which involves people Susan is still involved with, and that's where it all falls apart again. Over the next few years, Susan's career takes off, she helps dismantle a predatory work environment, and meets someone new who might actually be good for her. Yet she can't stop thinking about Eliza. What might have been, if things had gone differently? And who might Susan become if she could only let Eliza go?
At once a hilarious-yet-tender coming of age story; a steamy, complicated romance; and an authentic celebration of queer joy, Long Island Girls is for anyone who has ever struggled to stop getting caught up in "what-ifs" and start appreciating what is.
Critic Reviews
"As much about friendship, self-knowledge, and coming of age as it is about young love. (Fellow millennials: you will also absolutely eat up the nostalgia factor in this one.)" —Them, Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2026
"Achingly emotional, Gabrielle Korn’s Long Island Girls is an electric story of first love and the people we can’t forget no matter how hard we try. Full of longing, lust, and nostalgia, this is a knock-out!" —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and One Golden Summer
"A captivating, sprawling, queer coming-of-age story—a nostalgic mixtape that begins in the early aughts and ends in post-COVID Los Angeles. I read it in one sitting, cued up a 2006 playlist, and tried not to text the girl who got away. It's like a queer Love in the Time of Cholera for anyone who’s ever powered on an old phone to relive their first love." —Tegan Quin, bestselling author of High School
"A dizzying triumph of queer millennial nostalgia complete with sapphic longing, the rise and fall of the early aughts indie music scene, and the closeted-suburban-girl to disaster-Brooklyn-lesbian pipeline. A heart-caught-in-your-throat-book told through a kaleidoscope of the captivating cringe of early 2000’s culture, propelling us through time until we arrive breathless to the here and now." —Haley Jakobson, New York Times Editor’s Choice Author of Old Enough
“If Long Island Girls were a band, I’d be telling everyone, 'You have to check out this artist.' An engrossing, funny, and tender story about music, connection, and finding yourself. This book made me want to dig up my old iPod and find something to yearn about.” —Emily Austin, bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
"A pitch-perfect queer coming of age story...a tender ode to the aughts and ever-evolving self discovery." —Iman Hariri-Kia, author of A Hundred Other Girls
"Brimming with nostalgia and yearning, and funny to boot, Long Island Girls is a delicious read....A love letter to growing up and becoming yourself, and all the messy, painful, and beautiful mistakes along the way." —Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother's Lovers
"Deftly uses time, place, and romantic obsession to tell an eminently relatable story... Long Island Girls brings any reader along for an intimate journey." —Cameron Esposito, national bestselling author of Save Yourself
"This richly textured lesbian yearnmance has everything: hot sex, cathartic self-excavation, and a three-legged dog named Cashew. Long Island Girls is the perfect soundtrack for reliving the many selves you’ve been and celebrating those you have yet to become." —Ruth Madievsky, national bestselling author of All-Night Pharmacy