Buntin Julie - Marlena A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize Finalist Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue Buzz Feed The Washington Post Esquire Harper's Bazaar NPR Nylon Huffington Post Kirkus Reviews Barnes & Noble Chosen for the Book of the Month Club Nylon Book Club and Belletrist Book Club Named an Indie Next Pick and a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick Everything about fifteen - year - old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off - kilter until she meets her neighbor the manic beautiful pill - popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena's orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts first drink first cigarette first kiss first pill Marlena's habits harden and calcify. Within a year Marlena is dead drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now decades later Cat must try again to move on even as the memory of Marlena calls her back. Told in a haunting dialogue between past and present Marlena is the captivating story of an intoxicating indelible friendship that does not flinch from the resonant effects of its loss.
Title: Marlena A Novel
Author(s): Buntin Julie
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250160157
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/3/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction