"The true magic of Julie Buntin is she writes stories that feel like your own. It's the story of a haunting, about the ghosts that never release us and continue to define us." - Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter It isn't merely a friendship chronicle, nor is it a profile of a doomed, beautiful girl. The most accurate portrait I've read about angst, lust, boredom, and the blindness of youth. She writes the kind of piercing, revelatory sentences you have to read to whomever is near, sentences you find yourself remembering years later." Jonathan Safran Foer
"Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight. "The gifted young writer Julie Buntin has written a novel of deep and exquisite intelligence, humor, and riveting sensitivity. Devastating as unforgettable as it is gorgeous." - Kirkus Jumping between their teenage friendship in Michigan and Cat's adult life in New York City, Buntin creates a world so subtle and nuanced and alive that it imprints like a memory. vivid debut.Buntin's prose is emotional and immediate, and the interior lives she draws of young women and obsessive best friends are Ferrante-esque." - Booklist that lives in lost things, that sets apart the gone forever.'" - Publishers Weekly The novel is poignant and unforgettable, a sustained eulogy for Marlena's 'glow.
Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past.Īlive with an urgent, unshakable tenderness, Julie Buntin's Marlena is an unforgettable look at the people who shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades.Įverything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena.
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