The Last of Her Kind (Broché)

Ann and Georgette meet as college roommates in New York in 1968. Ann, who comes from a wealthy family, is brilliant and idealistic. Georgette, who has grown up in poverty, is mystified by Ann's romanticisation of the underprivileged class, which Georgette is hoping college will enable her to escape. An intense and difficult friendship is born. Years after a fight ends their friendship, Ann is convicted of murder.
As Georgette struggles to understand what has happened, she is led back to their shared history and to an examination of the revolutionary era in which the two women came of age.