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Coming-of-age in Manhattan may not have been done this brilliantly since Catcher in the Rye. That comparison has been made before, but this time, its true. Get ready to fall in love. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The Falconer is a novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything. Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and co-owner of Parnassus Books
New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate.
As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache, Lucy is seduced by a different kind of lifeone less consumed by conventional success and the approval of men. A pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New Yorks bohemia invite her into their world, but soon even their paradise begins to show cracks.
Told in vibrant, quicksilver prose, The Falconer is a wholly original coming-of-age story (Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists), providing a snapshot of the city and America through the eyes of the children of the baby boomers grappling with privilege and the fading of radical hopes. New York Times bestselling author Claire Messud calls The Falconer an exhilarating debut, adding that Dana Czapniks frank heroine has a voice, and a perspective, you wont soon forget.
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"Coming-of-age in Manhattan may not have been done this brilliantly since *Catcher in the Rye. . . .*Get ready to fall in love."
Kirkus (starred review)
Smart, tough, an extraordinary athlete, Lucy Adler teeters, zealous and baffled, on the cusp of womanhood. Dana Czapniks frank heroine has a voice, and a perspective, you wont soon forget.The Falconeris an exhilarating debut.
Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and *The Woman Upstairs*
A deeply affecting tale of a young woman coming of age in a mans world. All the characters feel authentic and unique, and its protagonist, Lucy Adler, jumps right off the page. Ive never read a character quite like her in fiction - a deeply intelligent basketball player with a sharp, incisive take on the changing city and country in which she lives. Lucys journey into adulthood will be especially resonant with todays readers.
Salman Rushdie, author ofThe Golden Houseand*Midnights Children*
An unsentimental education in all that is urgent, soulful and intimate. As much the portrait of an era as it is the portrait of an adolescence, this is a crossover novel that will thrill readers of all generations.The Falconercaptures the grueling, exhilarating pathos of one womans quest to become whole. A wonderful debut.
Colum McCann, author ofThirteen Ways of Lookingand*Let The Great World SpinThe Falconer* is a novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything."
Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and co-owner of Parnassus Books
Meet Lucy Adler. As I read The Falconer, I felt like I'd found a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield--if Holden were a straight-shooting, hip-hop-listening, court-dominating, seventeen-year-old Jewish-Italian girl. Dana Czapnik has crafted a wholly original coming-of-age story. In basketball terms, The Falconer is a fearless three-point shot.
Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalistsand *The Anatomy of Dreams*
"Told with a poet's ear and a basketball player's eye and reflexes, The Falconer is an extraordinary book. Czapnik is refreshingly honest and open-eyed about the way money, gender and the demands of the body steer the overwhelming longings and frustrations of being a young woman growing up in the city. Every detail feels true and important, every small observation tells a larger story. A wonderful new talent."
Rivka Galchen, author ofAtmospheric Disturbancesand*American Innovations*
Dana Czapnik is a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2017, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction. Czapnik earned her MFA at Hunter College where she was recognized with a Hertog Fellowship. Shes spent most of her career on the editorial side of professional sports including stints at ESPN the Magazine, the United States Tennis Association, and the Arena Football League. A native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and son.
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