From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women, a searing and timely novel about a teenaged girl, a charismatic teacher, and a

His Favorites: A Novel

From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women, a searing and timely novel about a teenaged girl, a charismatic teacher, and a dark, open secret.

They were on a lark, three teenage girls speeding across the greens at night on a â€œborrowedâ€ golf cart, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parentsâ€™ rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident.

Taut, propulsive, and devastating, His Favorites reveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story cooly describes a series of shattering events and the system that failed to protect her. Walbert, who brilliantly explored a century of womenâ€™s struggles for rights and recognition in her award-winning A Short History of Women, limns the all-too-common violations of vulnerability and aspiration in the lives of young women in this suspenseful short novel. From the publisher of the classic A Separate Peace, His Favorites is an urgent book by a â€œwickedly smart writerâ€ (The New York Times Book Review) whose work is â€œfascinating, moving and significantâ€ (The Washington Post).
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 1476799393SR9
ReleaseDate 2018-08-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476799391

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	1476799393SR9
ReleaseDate	2018-08-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476799391

His Favorites: A Novel

You might also like...