- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Published: 1/2/24
- IBSN: 9781636141459
- e-IBSN: 9781636141466
- Genre: Fiction
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Swanna in Love
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Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before January 02, 2024.
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Forthcoming: 1/2/24
What people are saying…
PRAISE FOR JENNIFER BELLE:
“An exceptionally funny writer.”
—Time, on Going Down
“A witty, gritty, thoroughly convincing first novel.”
—Nick Hornby, on Going Down
“Hilarious.”
—Boston Globe, on High Maintenance
“Just buy the damn book.”
—New York Observer, on High Maintenance
“Delicious.”
—New York Daily News, on Little Stalker
“Hilarious and poignant . . . This protagonist is an endearing figure.”
—Seattle Times, on Little Stalker
“A fun ride . . . [Isolde] flirts with infidelity and navigates satiric set pieces (fertility-challenged nannies, bad playdate mommies) like a BabyBörn-toting Alice in a kook-infested urban Wonderland.”
—Entertainment Weekly, on The Seven Year Bitch
Description
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before January 02, 2024.
It’s the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late—stoned and radiant—in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont—to an artist colony where kids are not welcome and they are forced to sleep in the back of the truck, while Val is cozy inside the house with the Russian.
Then Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling alley, and, knowing a thing or two about seduction from Judy Blume, her best friend at camp, and her own parents’ many affairs—she sets out to convince Dennis to help her. But love seldom obeys rules, and even a tough, smart, city girl like Swanna might not be able to handle falling in love. Best-selling novelist Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverse Lolita that explores adolescent desire from the girl’s point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking, Swanna in Love will keep your feathers ruffled and the pages gliding by.
- Subjects: Forthcoming, Literary Fiction
- Tags: Jennifer Belle, Swanna in Love
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Author
JENNIFER BELLE is the best-selling author of four novels, Going Down (which was named best debut novel by Entertainment Weekly and optioned for the screen twenty-seven times), High Maintenance, Little Stalker, and The Seven Year Bitch; and Animal Stackers, a picture book for children (illustrated by David McPhail). Her stories and essays have appeared in
the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Independent (London), Harper’s Bazaar, Ms., BlackBook, the New York Observer, Post Road, and many anthologies. Her most recent work is the forthcoming Swanna in Love.