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Free Download His Favorites By Kate Walbert
2018 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1476799393 | EPUB | 2 MB
From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author ofA Short History of Women,a searing and timely novel about a teenaged girl, a charismatic teacher, and a dark, open secret.They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a "borrowed" golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents' rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident.Taut, propulsive and devastating,His Favoritesreveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story coolly describes a series of shattering events and the system that failed to protect her. Walbert, who brilliantly explored a century of women's struggles for rights and recognition in her award-winningA Short History of Women, limns the all-too-common violations of vulnerability and aspiration in the lives of young women in this suspenseful short novel.From the ✅Publisher of the classicA Separate Peace,His Favoritesis an urgent book by a "wickedly smart writer" (The New York Times Book Review)whose work is "fascinating, moving and significant" (The Washington Post).