EAN: 9781529076011

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

From the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize nominee whose short stories received instant acclaim (?Sparingly told evoked with lacerating intimacy . . . Extraordinary' - Esquire) a debut novel about a young woman's coming of age in parallel with a renegade male friend who challenges her beliefs and the course of her life. At sixteen Rosa meets Jamie by chance. She lives in middle-class South Brooklyn he comes from the super-rich of upper Manhattan. She's observant cautious eager to seem normal he's curious bold full of mysteries. She keeps a keen intelligence under wraps his eccentric brilliance is all but impossible to repress. While Rosa welcomes Jamie into her family's embrace he avoids going home with little in common they are drawn together in a deep friendship. As Rosa goes off to an elite college and falls in and out of love Jamie drops out of school and joins the Occupy Wall Street movement. Rosa so often trapped by self-doubt is both awed and repelled by the strength of Jamie's convictions. Carried forcefully along by Sestanovich's highly observant butterfly-pinning prose these two characters pulled into separate spheres circle the same questions: how to define their values and find their purpose how to create a sense of self while discovering what they owe to society and to the cause of justice. The geometry of their platonic love leads us on a surprising journey of intimacy across time - exposing the alchemy of connection of the relationships that can define who we are and can even change us and the possible futures we might not have imagined for ourselves.

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