“Swanna in Love is an addictive read, a book as genuinely funny as it is transgressive. Jennifer Belle captures the bravado and vulnerability of adolescence in a voice that jumps off the first page and ventures into some dangerous territory.”
—Tom Perrotta, author of Tracy Flick Can’t Win

“Oh, how I loved the whip-smart Swanna Swain. I loved the way she effortlessly lied to people. I love how much she wanted things, good and bad. With Swanna in Love, Jennifer Belle has given us the other side of Nabokov’s Lolita—the misunderstood teenage temptress who desperately wants an ice cream sandwich, a comfortable bed to sleep in. Love. Sometimes, it hurts what happens to her. I inhaled this book.”
—Marcy Dermansky, author of Hurricane Girl

“Only Jennifer Belle could write a character like the utterly original and hilariously fierce Swanna, who navigates her way out of the benign neglect of an eighties New York City post-divorce childhood with her beloved brother in tow—a lifetime of growth and change—in the course of a summer. Swanna in Love is a coming-of-age novel unlike anything I’ve ever read—beautiful, funny, and heartbreakingly true. I loved, and believed, every word of it.”
—Laura Zigman, author of Small World

“Utterly delightful. By turns deeply funny and profoundly moving. The most pitch-perfect portrait of adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye. I loved this novel so!”
—Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

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