Marlena buntin5/25/2023 ![]() a wild, gorgeous evocation of the wildness and gorgeousness of youth. sweeps you up without too much explication, becoming both a painful exorcism and a devoted memorial to friends and selves who are gone." – New York Times Book Review "At the center of Julie Buntin’s debut novel is the kind of coming-of-age friendship that goes beyond camaraderie, into a deeper bond that forges identity it’s friendship as a creative act, a collaborative work of imagination.This generous, sensitive novel of true feeling. Buntin’s prose is elaborately descriptive, sometimes invoking physical sensations in the reader." – Boston Globe ![]() ![]() It is a gem of a book, brief and urgent, nearly perfect in its execution. “Marlena’’ feels timeless, its vivid characters suspended in the difficult moment of awakening just before adulthood. "A thrilling and important examination of female adolescent friendship. ![]() MARLENA named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Vogue, NYLON, iBooks, Brooklyn Public Library, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, & more. MARLENA is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize MARLENA named a Michigan Notable Book 2018 Novel-in-progress won the 2019 Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award ![]()
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