The Last Girls - Lee Smith

http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9781565124059-7 - In college, a group of girls traveled down the Mississippi River on a raft...roughly thirty years later, one of the girls has died in an accident, and the others are reunited for another trip. While the book is set in 1999, there are flashbacks to the girls' childhoods and time in college. It is very similar to the Ya-Yas - though the women haven't mantained their close friendships over time, if they ever were actually friends to begin with. While some of the characters were a bit tedious, overall I really enjoyed the different stories about their lives growing up in the South.