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A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick
O, The Oprah Magazine Reading Room #1 Pick for March
"[An] electric debut novel... Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well." βChloe Malle, New York Times Book Review
"The Falconer is a novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything." βAnn Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth
New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy's inner life is a contradiction. She's by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion of a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist his upper crust fate.
As Lucy navigates...
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