Penguin Random House USA

"An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down." -Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You. "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." -GQ.

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.

Ana is a rebellious young woman, a gifted writer with a curious, brilliant mind, who writes secret narratives about the neglected and silenced women around her. Raised in a wealthy family in Galilee, she is sheltered from the brutality of Rome's occupation of Israel. Ana is expected to marry an elderly widower to further her father's ambitions, a prospect that horrifies her. A chance

Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it's all a lie.

When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood's only salvation is his friendship with fellow "delinquent" Turner, which deepens despite Turner's conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked,