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Soho Press
May 2015
On Sale: May 19, 2015
Featuring: Rainey Royal
ISBN: 1616955716
EAN: 9781616955717
Kindle: B00J1HDEME
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Contemporary | Fiction
Set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 1970s, Dylan
Landis, winner of a 2014 O. Henry Prize (for "Trust," a
section of this novel) weaves a powerful story of girlhood,
friendship, and sexuality.
Fourteen-year-old
Rainey Royal lives with her father, a jazz musician with a
cultish personality, in a once-elegant, now-decaying
brownstone. Her mother has abandoned the family, and Rainey
fends off advances from her father’s best friend while
trying desperately to nurture her own creative drives and
build a substitute family. She’s a rebel, even a criminal,
but she’s also deeply vulnerable, fighting to figure out how
to put back in place the boundaries her life has knocked
down, and more than that, struggling to learn how to be an
artist and a person in a broken world.
Rainey
Royal is told in 14 narratives of scarred and aching
beauty that build into a fiercely powerful novel: the
harrowing and ultimately affirming story of a young artist.
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