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15 years later, just as much fashion—but more friendship

Pearson’s and Weisberger’s next installments will each come out on June 5

IN 2002 AND 2003, ALLISON PEARSON and Lauren Weisberger released novels that shook the lives of women privileged enough to aspire to, well, more privilege.

I Don’t Know How She Does It was Pearson’s paean to harried working mothers, with her protagonist Kate Reddy standing in for every woman who has ever tried to juggle three dozen bake-sale cupcakes while

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