It will be published by Henry Holt on April 4th.Ībout the Guest Editor: Rachel Fershleiser is the executive director of audience development & community engagement at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her debut novel, Marlena, was named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Elle Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, The Millions, and Vulture. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, One Teen Story, Electric Literature, and other publications. Without fetishizing technology or harping on millennial kids today, Buntin writes work that feels vividly contemporary and realistic.” - Rachel FershleiserĪbout the Author: Julie Buntin is from northern Michigan. But I’m so moved by the complications her character’s face: not dating or choosing a career, but surviving in a slice of current-day America that doesn’t seem to have much use for you. Her novel Marlena, the first chapter of which is excerpted here, could be described as coming-of-age. The bard of knowing you come from nothing and wanting something better and struggling to believe you deserve such a thing, especially as you watch women like you, better than you, smarter or more beautiful or both, get sucked back in by drugs or despair or abusive men. “To me, Julie Buntin is something like the poet laureate of the young and female and working class.
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