{"product_id":"9781476799407","title":"His Favorites : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHis Favorites\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Kate Walbert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “tense, taut, and thrilling” (\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a school’s complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Women\u003c\/i\u003e—“riveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our times” (Ann Patchett).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens at night on a “borrowed” 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 parents’ rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Devastatingly relevant” (\u003ci\u003eVogue)\u003c\/i\u003e and “fueled by gorgeous writing” (NPR), \u003ci\u003eHis Favorites\u003c\/i\u003e 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 coolly describes a series of shattering events and a school that failed to protect her. “Before things turn treacherous, there’s a moment when predation can feel dangerously like kindness…Walbert understands this…\u003ci\u003eHis Favorites\u003c\/i\u003e begs to be read” (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eHIS FAVORITES:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eHis Favorites \u003c\/i\u003eis exactly the book for our times. That Kate Walbert has managed to write a novel that is riveting, terrifying, and yet always charmingly buoyant, speaks volumes to how well she understands women. If you’re trying to figure out what’s going on, how these things happen, read this book\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eAnn Patchett, author of \u003ci\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The writing is so beautiful and exact—so startling in every sentence—that \u003ci\u003eHis Favorites \u003c\/i\u003etook me way past what I thought I knew. This is a novel that shines with a laser beam, lighting what needs to be lit.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e–Joan Silber, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eImprovement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The smartest, most brutally true novel I’ve read this year. \u003ci\u003eHis Favorites \u003c\/i\u003ereveals Kate Walbert’s dazzling ability to render the unsayable.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e–Carolyn Cooke, author of \u003ci\u003eDaughters of the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Of all the lessons gleaned from #MeToo, one stands out as particularly sinister: before things turn treacherous, there’s a moment when predation can feel dangerously like kindness. A young person, not yet aware of his or her power, is made to feel special–and then it’s too late. Kate Walbert understands this…\u003ci\u003e His Favorites\u003c\/i\u003e begs to be read.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Lucy Feldman, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A layered, time-bending book that depicts the lingering effects of abuse…there will be no mistaking Walbert for anything but devastatingly relevant.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Lauren Mechling, \u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kate Walbert's most powerful novel yet... fueled by gorgeous writing, as well as outrage... heartbreaking and galvanizing.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Heller McAlpin, NPR.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eAt just 150 pages long, \u003ci\u003eHis Favorites\u003c\/i\u003e… is impossible to put down.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Rosa Inocencio Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A quick and powerful read, with a story both gripping and harrowing…you’ll read this tense, taut, and thrilling novel in the shadow of #MeToo and ache for violated women across the decades.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Samantha Irby, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An unflinching addition to the #MeToo conversation.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Cory Oldweiler, \u003ci\u003eAM New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sharp look at school days that are anything but idyllic...Walbert’s slim, impactful novel, distinguished as all her work is by beautiful writing and a wealth of literary allusions, could not be more timely.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taut, powerful…Jo narrates with brutal honesty…Her story, filled with rage and regret and intensified by its searing portrait of self-aware, self-destructive teenage girls, provides a case history in male-female relationships built on an imbalance of power.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, STARRED review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rendered in crystalline, matter-of-fact prose relating the narrator’s own emotional numbness and distancing, this self-aware metanovel is well timed for our current political era. Walbert packs a punch.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, STARRED review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781476799407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40946003116238,"sku":"9781476799407","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_0702cba5-7890-4582-8a44-b214726a8dc3.jpg?v=1646080218","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781476799407","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}