Description:
New York: Knopf, 2022. Purchased New. F/F. First Edition. Fifth printing. Signed by Tess Gunty on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 338 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. Blandine is a beautiful and formidably intelligent young woman who shares her apartment with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands. They have all aged out of the state foster care system that repeatedly failed them, and all are searching for meaning in their lives. Their story is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment, and, ultimately, freedom. Winner of the 2022 National Book Award.