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"[Nunez's] best novel to date....Her spare voice...gives even the simplest descriptions of place and weather unsettling force and beauty." Village Voice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 0374183813
Hardcover
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Fiction | Contemporary
The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as
freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George
does not
know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate,
Ann Drayton,
and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which
she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the
underprivileged class,
which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her
to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship,
Georgette wants
only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the
troubled runaway
kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road.
Then, in 1976,
Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's
fate appears
to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral
imperative
to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent
white
people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this
friend
of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and
mysterious
forces at work. As the novel's narrator, Georgette
illuminates the
terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the
process
discovers how much their early encounter has determined her
own path,
and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never
stopped thinking about her."
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