The Knockout Queen A Novel

Description: A Finalist for the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction An In Style Best Book of the Year A Refinery 29 Best Book of the Year By the end of high school Bunny Lampert is 6 3 with the abs of a ninja turtle and the face of a boy angel. Her dad has chaotic salesman energy and her mom is dead. But from the outside Bunny seems to have it all she's blonde rich and an Olympic volleyball hopeful. Michael who has a ponytail and a septum piercing works at Rite - Aid and has a secret Grindr lives with his aunt in the cramped cottage next door to Bunny's Mc Mansion. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. Their friendship is as improbable as it is irresistible but when Michael falls in love for the first time a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunny's futures . A beautiful and darkly comic book about doing things you didn t mean to do wanting things you wish you didn t want and loving people you can t afford to love.
Title: The Knockout Queen A Novel
Barcode: 9780525567295
Publication Date: 3/2/2021
Series: Vintage Contemporaries