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A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Inspired by the true, gruesome story, A Gorgeous Excitement chronicles one mesmerizing, hazy, drug-fueled summer in the 1980s. This coming-of-age covered in warning signs will appeal to fans of The Girls by Emma Cline.

One young woman’s summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in “this 1980s coming-of-age tale [that’s] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.”—People (Best Books of the Month)

“I haven’t felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the ’80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.”—Margarita Montimore, bestselling author of Oona Out of Order

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