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Sarah Crichton Books, 2014. First Edition/First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 2014. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy. Not since Donna Tartt s The Secret History has a novel this intoxicating captured the headiness and dark temptations of university life. The old Etruscan city of Grifonia swarms with year-abroad students--thousands of them from all over. Ostensibly, they ve come to study. But really they are here to reinvent themselves, to shuck their identities and buck constraints far from the watchful eyes of parents and others who know them too well. There s a reason Henry James s young ladies went to Europe with chaperones. Today s young ladies don t. In Abroad, the bestselling novelist Katie Crouch--whose Girls in Trucks brilliantly portrayed the cruelties of postcollege New York life on a Southern girl trying to make her way--tears a story from international headlines and transforms it into a page-turning parable of modern girlhood, full of longing and… Read More