College Girl

“A raw and resonant debut novel” (Megan McCafferty) and a vivid portrait of life on a modern college campus.. College senior Natalie Bloom is beautiful and ambitious but also painfully insecure. At twenty she’s still a virgin never even having had a boyfriend. At school Natalie hides out most weekends in the library—until she meets Patrick her fantasy (she thinks) of a cultured intellectual Prince Charming. But the more time they spend together the more Patrick brings out her worst insecurities. And before Natalie’s ready she winds up losing her virginity— and her sense of direction as her emotional responses take a dangerously self-destructive turn. Soon it’ll take only the most extreme measures to reclaim her sense of self her confidence and her ambition.. Insightful moving and achingly self-aware College Girl is an intensely real portrait of a character whose insecurities are recognizable to us all and of a time of life that changes everything..