![]() ![]() As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts-first drink, first cigarette, first kiss-while Marlena’s dangerous habits harden and calcify. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena’s orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. But everything changes when she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Julie Buntin’s searing debut novel MARLENA tells the story of two girls and the feral year that cost one of them her life, and defined the other’s for decades.Ĭat, age 15, is depressed and lonely when she moves to Silver Lake, MI with her older brother and newly divorced, often drunk, mother. She writes the kind of piercing, revelatory sentences you have to read to whomever is near, sentences you find yourself remembering years later.” – Jonathan Safran Foer “Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight. Julie Buntin’s MARLENA is an electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss. ![]() *Disregard the notification that will appear after Booking* RSVP appreciated: fill out the “Bookings” form at the bottom of this page. 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street the Archway)įor more information, please call 718.666.3049 ![]()
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