Bloom: Letters on Girlhood

by Claire Sicherman, Nicole Breit

180 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2025

Reviews

[Danette Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nicole and Claire have gifted us with this refreshing reflection of the particular path that girls walk. Through a series of raw and revealing letters, there's recognition of the underlying belief systems that girls wear as close to them as their first bra. Beyond the memories of my own life that Bloom evoked, I was drawn to how it was expected that we be on high alert to the feelings/ moods of others and the idea that the worse thing you could do was hurt someone's feelings. I thoroughly enjoyed exploring this journey to becoming a woman who blooms into rage and beauty as the rocky, rebellious, and worthy road it is.

[Heather Hendrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is IT! I love it so much...
Bloom: Letters on Girlhood is the tome I wish I had at my bedside as a teenager. Imagine having your best friend hold your hand through ever scary, exciting or overwhelming moment of transition in your life, and this is Bloom. In an intimate, unique epistolary style, Claire & Nicole keep us company as we cross the thresholds of life in their loving company. This book is truly a delight. I wish I’d had it years ago!

—Heather Hendrie, the bestselling author of Awfully Hilarious: Stories We Never Tell and Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces

[Doretta Lau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bloom: Letters on Girlhood is a gorgeous meditation on growing up female. As I read, I was
transported back in time; it felt as though I was watching home movies in my best friend’s
basement rec room. I am in awe of the beauty, humour, and insight Claire Sicherman and Nicole
Breit have brought to their tender letters, and grateful for their generosity in sharing their lives. It
is a pleasure to experience their brilliant conversations and to witness these two astonishing
writers arrive in their full power as the people they are today.

[Ahava Shira · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am smitten with this beautiful conversation the two authors are having...It is honest, smart, edgy, raw, so real. Getting to know them both this way feels exciting and like a privilege. They each share such vivid memories, with what feels like ease. Again and again I am drawn to consider my own girlhood, those experiences I have written about and those I haven't. It's like they are giving me permission.

[Alyson Soko · Rating 5 out of 5]

BLOOM, Letters on Girlhood takes us down lovely nostalgic paths, but as always, angst and uncomfortable feelings of adolescence dog us. Nicole and Claire write viscerally of this universal truth as we leave not-always-idyllic childhoods behind to mature into our next iterations of ourselves. Brava, Claire and Nicole. I wish I'd had this book at hand decades ago!