Age of Consent
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A total time machine-I loved it."
-Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and POPSUGAR
A daringly honest, sexy...
-Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and POPSUGAR
A daringly honest, sexy...
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"A total time machine-I loved it."-Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and POPSUGAR
A daringly honest, sexy debut novel about three young women coming of age in 1980s New England and New York-a bingeable summer read
It's 1983. David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan has never been cooler. But Justine and Eve are stuck at Griswold Academy, a Connecticut boarding school. Griswold is a far cry from Justine's bohemian life in New Haven, where her parents run a theater and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of status-obsessed Park Avenue parents, also feels like an outsider amidst Griswold's preppy jocks and debutantes. Justine longs for Eve's privilege, and Eve for Justine's sexual confidence. Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory older men.
After a tumultuous school year, Eve and Justine spend the summer in New York City, where they join Eve's childhood friend, India. Justine moves into India's Hell's Kitchen apartment and is pulled further into her friends' glamorous lives. Eve, under her parents' ever-watchful eye, interns at a SoHo art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims of her boss. India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them, even as the young women begin to assert their independence.
A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental damage, Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years.
Story Locale: A fictional Connecticut boarding school, New York City, and Long Island, NY
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Part One
One
Connecticut, September 1983
"Let me out," Justine said.
"It's only a hundred yards to the dorm," her father replied.
"Stop the car!"
Miles pulled the wheezing orange Volvo onto the shoulder, and Justine surveyed the Griswold campus through the bug-spewn windshield. Manicured lawns with a mix of brick and clapboard clustered around a quad they called "the Green."
"Lugging that heavy suitcase is a lot more embarrassing than showing up in the rust mobile," he said.
"Oxygen," she said, opening the door and hauling her suitcase out of the back seat.
"Honey?"
He needed a shave and his eyes were moist with tears. "Don't forget . . ." he trailed off.
"I won't!" She shut the door and began walking across the lawn.
Don't forget what? Now the suitcase was making ugly divots in the perfect grass. She glanced around to see whether anyone noticed, but nobody was there.
Justine arrived in front of the dorm, sweating. She blew a wave of hair out of her face. A few weeks ago, sitting at their kitchen table in New Haven, her mother had pushed aside the toast crumbs and dirty teacups to read the letter describing Justine's new roommate, pausing here and there for dramatic emphasis.
"Tierney Worthington, 234 Victory Gardens, Moodus, Connecticut," Cressida had mused. "Moodus, how unusual. Not the predicted Greenwich or Darien?"
Justine fought the urge to snatch the letter back.
"Maybe Griswold isn't so homogenous after all," Cressida continued. "More than just heiresses and tennis champions."
"Don't count on it," Miles grunted, frowning over his glasses.
The dorm was a small colonial house with a columned porch. Justine saw several similar quaint houses around the Green with harried parents unpacking trunks in front of them.
As she hauled her suitcase up the steps, a silver car pulled in, a chrome panther leaping from its hood. A man in Bermuda shorts opened the trunk and heaved a
... mehr
suitcase onto the gravel.
"Tierney, exactly what did you pack? Rocks?"
A Tretorn sneaker appeared from the back seat, followed by a pretty, freckled girl with a ponytail.
Justine trudged up the steps and opened the door.
A living room off the stair hall had two sofas, a framed impressionist poster, and aggressively floral wallpaper. The carpet was hunter green, worn down from years of Tretorns, Justine thought, looking down at her pointy hot pink flats. She'd bought them at a thrift shop in New Haven, and until seconds ago they had seemed so cool. Now she realized they were trashy and cheap.
She climbed the stairs and found her room. It was cramped, with wooden bunk beds and matching dressers. At some point it must have been a real bedroom, Justine realized, as she noticed the wainscoting and the paneled doors. A dormer window framed the lawn. It could be charming, if only her mother were here to work her magic.
Tierney and her father were arguing in the hall.
Would she and Tierney undress in front of each other? Despite the features she hated, short legs and big nose, Justine had perfect breasts, and anyone who had ever seen them (five boys and one full-grown man) agreed. She unpacked her teddy bear, Henry, and set him down on the bottom bunk. The view from the top would make her dizzy.
Her roommate appeared, narrowing her eyes as her father struggled through the door with a suitcase. An errant piece of iron-gray hair was hanging down his sweaty forehead. He stuck out his hand. "Whit Worthington. You must be Justine." His grip mashed her knuckle joints together. "Where are your parents?"
"My dad had to take off."
"And miss Family Orientation Day?" He set the suitcase down and looked around.
"They have to work."
"Don't we all," he said, smoothing his hair back into place.
"This room is disgusting,"
"Tierney, exactly what did you pack? Rocks?"
A Tretorn sneaker appeared from the back seat, followed by a pretty, freckled girl with a ponytail.
Justine trudged up the steps and opened the door.
A living room off the stair hall had two sofas, a framed impressionist poster, and aggressively floral wallpaper. The carpet was hunter green, worn down from years of Tretorns, Justine thought, looking down at her pointy hot pink flats. She'd bought them at a thrift shop in New Haven, and until seconds ago they had seemed so cool. Now she realized they were trashy and cheap.
She climbed the stairs and found her room. It was cramped, with wooden bunk beds and matching dressers. At some point it must have been a real bedroom, Justine realized, as she noticed the wainscoting and the paneled doors. A dormer window framed the lawn. It could be charming, if only her mother were here to work her magic.
Tierney and her father were arguing in the hall.
Would she and Tierney undress in front of each other? Despite the features she hated, short legs and big nose, Justine had perfect breasts, and anyone who had ever seen them (five boys and one full-grown man) agreed. She unpacked her teddy bear, Henry, and set him down on the bottom bunk. The view from the top would make her dizzy.
Her roommate appeared, narrowing her eyes as her father struggled through the door with a suitcase. An errant piece of iron-gray hair was hanging down his sweaty forehead. He stuck out his hand. "Whit Worthington. You must be Justine." His grip mashed her knuckle joints together. "Where are your parents?"
"My dad had to take off."
"And miss Family Orientation Day?" He set the suitcase down and looked around.
"They have to work."
"Don't we all," he said, smoothing his hair back into place.
"This room is disgusting,"
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Autoren-Porträt von Amanda Brainerd
Amanda Brainerd
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Amanda Brainerd
- Altersempfehlung: 13 - 17 Jahre
- 2021, 336 Seiten, Maße: 12,5 x 19,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 1984879545
- ISBN-13: 9781984879547
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"A breathless time capsule of a book, Age of Consent is a coming-of-age period piece that feels very much of the now."Harper s Bazaar
"A total time machine I loved it."
Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where d You Go, Bernadette
"It's 1983, and best friends Justine and Eve want out of their miserable lives at their Connecticut boarding school, Griswold Academy. They soon find escape as they spend the summer in New York City to join Eve's childhood friend, India. All three then find themselves grappling with the power adults, like their parents, have over them."
Cosmopolitan
"This novel about close high school friends takes place in the early 1980s. It follows two girls from their posh Connecticut boarding school to the super cool streets of Soho in Manhattan. As the teens engage with older men and try to parse out their identities amid the art scene, they have to cope with their parents and their own coming-of-age in an alternative, gripping way that will make you want to blast some David Bowie -- and hold your own teens tight."
Zibby Owens, Good Morning America's "25 Novels You'll Want to Read This Summer"
"What a perfect summer book about all the things I love reading about: namely, young women coming to terms with themselves, their friendships, and their desire. And set in the 80s no less! I love being placed so firmly in this time of New York: Bowie, and grittiness, and a kind of freedom that is rarely allotted to teenagers these days, but was once taken for granted. . . . But even if things have changed since the 80s, much still remains the same: the reliance on deep friendships, the joy of a city at night, and the deep urge for experience, and more life."
Julia Hass, Lit Hub s Most Anticipated Books of 2020, Part 2
"[A] stunning debut."
Bustle
"The New York of the 1980s comes to life in Amanda Brainerd's coming of age tale Age of
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Consent. The novel follows three female friends as they explore their sexuality, navigate their first jobs, and deal with the ramifications of relationships with older men."
PopSugar's 30 Best New Books to Dive into This Summer
Amanda Brainerd s brilliant Age of Consent isn t just a coming of age novel. . . . It is also a gorgeous, rancid, luxurious snapshot of a type in America when helicopter parents didn t exist and dance clubs in NYC cared more about the fame of the clientele than their age. . . . Age of Consent is a dark and beautiful book for anyone who remembers the hope and terror of being sixteen.
San Francisco Book Review
"An engrossing page-turner of a story about a closely knit group of friends coming of age in a world of wealth, recreational drugs, and dysfunctional parenting, set among the verdant lawns of a Connecticut boarding school and the art scene and seedy digs of downtown New York."
Avenue Magazine
"A bracing, full-throttle dive into female coming-of-age in 1980s New York City. . . . As haunting and nostalgic as a sepia-toned photograph. . . . Age of Consent reveals the vulnerable, human heart at the center of a place and time cloaked in addiction, neglect and regret."
Shelf Awareness for Readers
Brainerd eloquently captures the struggles of her teenage characters while simultaneously providing insight into their screwed up parents. Familiar, funny, and totally unforgettable.
Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Social Climber s Handbook
"Bracing . . . engaging . . . well written . . . On the surface, Brainerd s tale is a nostalgic trip into the early 1980s, including an inspired evocation of the Downtown art scene, but her teenage characters make the greatest impact. The takes on parental neglect and the ways young women are taught to see sex as transactional make this more than a throwback."
Publishers Weekly
Heady and atmospheric, Brainerd's debut weaves the energy of glamorous, arty, and treacherous Manhattan into the coming-of-age dramas of her three adventurous heroes.
Booklist
A powerful, wildly entertaining story of friendship and identity set against the backdrop of the early 80 s, an era which has uncanny parallels to today. Brainerd brilliantly captures the struggles of young women trying to find their way in a time when their parents and role models are in deep crisis. Age of Consent is both a juicy page turner and a haunting, personal portrait of an era.
Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
A witty, perceptive, and compulsively readable book about the cool girls I'd wish I'd been in high school.
Patricia Marx, New Yorker staff writer and author of Him Her Him Again The End of Him
In her striking debut, Amanda Brainerd conjures a cast of vibrant and troubled young characters who find themselves thrown into an adult world of money, treachery, and sexual politics. She captures the raw and painful tangle of female adolescence with emotional honesty and precision. Set in the 1980s, a tumultuous Age of Consent, and brimming with evocative detail, the story travels across the glittering and gritty landscapes of an elite boarding school and New York City, leading its vulnerable protagonists to the discovery that charmed lives often hide the most dangerous circumstances.
Jane Mendelsohn, author of I Was Amelia Earhart
PopSugar's 30 Best New Books to Dive into This Summer
Amanda Brainerd s brilliant Age of Consent isn t just a coming of age novel. . . . It is also a gorgeous, rancid, luxurious snapshot of a type in America when helicopter parents didn t exist and dance clubs in NYC cared more about the fame of the clientele than their age. . . . Age of Consent is a dark and beautiful book for anyone who remembers the hope and terror of being sixteen.
San Francisco Book Review
"An engrossing page-turner of a story about a closely knit group of friends coming of age in a world of wealth, recreational drugs, and dysfunctional parenting, set among the verdant lawns of a Connecticut boarding school and the art scene and seedy digs of downtown New York."
Avenue Magazine
"A bracing, full-throttle dive into female coming-of-age in 1980s New York City. . . . As haunting and nostalgic as a sepia-toned photograph. . . . Age of Consent reveals the vulnerable, human heart at the center of a place and time cloaked in addiction, neglect and regret."
Shelf Awareness for Readers
Brainerd eloquently captures the struggles of her teenage characters while simultaneously providing insight into their screwed up parents. Familiar, funny, and totally unforgettable.
Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Social Climber s Handbook
"Bracing . . . engaging . . . well written . . . On the surface, Brainerd s tale is a nostalgic trip into the early 1980s, including an inspired evocation of the Downtown art scene, but her teenage characters make the greatest impact. The takes on parental neglect and the ways young women are taught to see sex as transactional make this more than a throwback."
Publishers Weekly
Heady and atmospheric, Brainerd's debut weaves the energy of glamorous, arty, and treacherous Manhattan into the coming-of-age dramas of her three adventurous heroes.
Booklist
A powerful, wildly entertaining story of friendship and identity set against the backdrop of the early 80 s, an era which has uncanny parallels to today. Brainerd brilliantly captures the struggles of young women trying to find their way in a time when their parents and role models are in deep crisis. Age of Consent is both a juicy page turner and a haunting, personal portrait of an era.
Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
A witty, perceptive, and compulsively readable book about the cool girls I'd wish I'd been in high school.
Patricia Marx, New Yorker staff writer and author of Him Her Him Again The End of Him
In her striking debut, Amanda Brainerd conjures a cast of vibrant and troubled young characters who find themselves thrown into an adult world of money, treachery, and sexual politics. She captures the raw and painful tangle of female adolescence with emotional honesty and precision. Set in the 1980s, a tumultuous Age of Consent, and brimming with evocative detail, the story travels across the glittering and gritty landscapes of an elite boarding school and New York City, leading its vulnerable protagonists to the discovery that charmed lives often hide the most dangerous circumstances.
Jane Mendelsohn, author of I Was Amelia Earhart
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