The Falconer A Novel

<b>A <i>New York Times</i> Editor’s Choice Pick </b><br> <br><b>“A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything.” —Ann Patchett, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Commonwealth</i></b><br> <br><b>“[An] electric debut novel…Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well.” —Chloe Malle, <i>The New York Times Book Review </i></b><br> <br><b>In this “frank, bittersweet coming-of-age story that crackles with raw adolescent energy, fresh-cut prose, and a kinetic sense of place” (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>), a teenaged tomboy explores love, growing up, and New York City in the early 1990s. </b><br><br>New York, 1993. Street-smart seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler is often the only girl on the public basketball courts. Lucy’s inner life is a contradiction. She’s by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pickup teammate, Percy, the rebellious son of a prominent New York family.<br> <br>As Lucy begins to question accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative feminist artists living in what remains of New York’s bohemia.<br> <br>Told with wit and pathos, <i>The Falconer</i> is at once a novel of ideas, a portrait of a time and place, and an ode to the obsessions of youth. In her critically acclaimed debut, Dana Czapnik captures the voice of an unforgettable modern literary heroine, a young woman in the first flush of freedom.