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ONE OF REFINERY29's BEST BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF the Skimm's BEST BOOKS OF 2017"The next great New York novel."-Town & Country"A story that feels familiar yet wholly original, like every heartbreak ever."-Marie Claire"Pitoniak's precise and incisive powers of observation give us a book with startling grace notes ... As in earlier, seminal novels about similar 20-something cohorts-among them Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar-the city is another mirror character, a puzzle the protagonists must solve as they come to grips with their own lives.--NPR.orgIn this dazzling debut novel about love and betrayal, a young couple moves to New York City in search of success-only to learn that the lives they dream of may come with dangerous strings attached.
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Anna Pitoniak is the author of The Futures, which was named a best book of 2017 by theSkimm and Refinery29. She graduated from Yale, where she majored in English and was an editor at the Yale Daily News. She worked for many years in book publishing, most recently as a Senior Editor at Random House. She grew up in Whistler, British Columbia, and now lives in New York City. Her new novel, Necessary People, will be published in May 2019.
