"A breathtaking and entirely relatable coming-of-age novel... For lovers of music, romance, and perhaps some indie sleaze, this is a time capsule for first love." --Harper's Bazaar, Most Anticipated Books of 2026

"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

"Korn channels the angst of the early 2000s indie music scene in this effective appeal to millennial nostalgia... Tender... a clear-eyed gaze into the messiness of youth." --Publishers Weekly

"Unflinching... Perfectly depicting every era of the 2000s and what it was like to come of age on the internet, this tenderly angsty novel is a delightful ode to the queer millennial experience." --Booklist

"An exploration of how first loves can imprint and the long shadow they cast." --Library Journal

"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

"I loved this book and will never shut up about it. A seamless fusion of love story, coming-of-age, and cultural ethnography, Long Island Girls is destined to be Millennial canon." --Holly Brickley, author of Deep Cuts